While you are correct about what structs are, we are talking about C++ here 
Javascript doesn’t have structs in the same regard as C++
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Why do we need structs?
A struct (short for structure) allows us to group variables of mixed data types together into a single unit. -
What are members in a struct?
Variables that are part of the struct are called members (or fields). -
How do you access a member inside a struct?
identifier.member -
What is a nested struct?
Structs that contain other structs.
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- Why do we need structs?
Structs are needed to cluster variable together into a single super variable (Structured aggregate data: struct).
- What are members in a struct?
I’m trying to relate this to something I know. Let’s say the Struct: ‘Sugar’. The members of this struct would be name, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. They are mostly sweet, but they are passed different values. SUGAR.glucose has member values C=6, H=12 and O=6. SUGAR.fructose has member values C=6, H =12 and O=6. Have too close a relationship with SUGAR.fructose with make you fat, giver you diabetes and rot your teeth!
- How do you access a member inside a struct?
the members of the struct can be accessed by invoking the struct member as an expression with the period operator.
- What is a nested struct?
This is when a struct elevates itself to ‘super’ struct form my taking on other structs as members (these structs would be members relative to the caller ‘super’ struct).
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Why do we need structs?
Structs, or structures, are a way for a programmer to create a unique variable type that contains multiple values of different types (which is similar to an array - except that an array only allows multiple values of single variable type). -
What are members in a struct?
The members in a struct are the different variables defined within the struct.
For example:
struct Person
{
string name;
int age;
double height;
double weight;
};
In the above example, the variables name, age and height (which are all different types of values) are members that are defined within ‘struct Person’.
- How do you access a member inside a struct?
You can access a member by using the member selection operator, which is a period. Once you have defined the struct and then defined a variable of the struct type, for example:
Person eggbert{"Eggbert", 122, 160.5, 96.8};
You can then access members as follows:
cout<<eggbert.name<<" is a very old man, having been alive for "<<eggbert.age<<endl;
cout<<eggbert.name<<" is also a rather short and heavyset individual, coming in at "<<eggbert.height<<" centimetres tall and "<<eggbert.weight<<" kilograms"<<endl;
- What is a nested struct?
A nested struct is exactly like a struct as defined in question 1, however another struct can use it as one of its members and therefore make it a nested struct. That is, a struct can have all kind of variable types (such as int, double, string, etc), one of which includes a struct (as a struct is just a user defined variable type).
So, using our struct from before, we could have the following struct:
struct BookClub
{
Person bookClubMember;
int months;
string favBook;
}
This example shows a struct called BookClub that includes:
bookClubMember - which is of the struct variable type (and can therefore access any values, from that struct, that have been initialised),
months - which lists the number of months the bookClubMember has been a part of the group and is of the int variable type, and
favBook - which lists the favourite book of the bookClubMember and is of the string variable type.
Hopefully I have this right, if not - I think my overly detailed explanations will show exactly where I have gone wrong, I think I am understanding structs correctly though and they seem like a slightly complex but very handy tool in a programmers toolbox.
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You got it right! 
keep up the good work!
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Why do we need structs?
Structs allow to store multiple variables accessible through one identifier. -
What are members in a struct?
The members are the individual variables belonging to the struct. -
How do you access a member inside a struct?
By using a period: struct.members -
What is a nested struct?
A nested struct is a struct which is defined within another struct. Consequently the inner struct is a member of the outer struct.
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- Why do we need structs?
We need structs when more than one variable is needed to represent an object. A struct is an object or an aggregate data type that has properties or members. For example, a person is the object and name, address, and phone number are the properties of that object.*
- What are members in a struct? The member are the attributes or properties of the struct. An address struct can have street number, street name, city and zip as its members.
- How do you access a member inside a struct? *Use the member selector operator which is a (.). For example if Mike is an instance of the student struct then Mike.studentid is used to access the member value, studentid.
- What is a nested struct? A nested struct is a struct that contains another struct.
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A nested struct is a struct within a struct
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Why do we need structs?
A struct allows the programmer to aggregate(group together) multiple individual variables of mixed data types together into one unit. -
What are members in a struct?
The multiple individual variables in a struct are know as members. -
How do you access a member inside a struct?
After the strut variable is defined, to access individual members use member selection operator. This operator uses the strut name with a period symbol to indicate that it’s a operator. -
What is a nested struct?
A nested struct is a struct variable, within a struct variable.
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- A struct allows us to group variables of mixed data types together into a single unit.
- All the variables that are part of it.
- we use the member selection operator which is a period.
- This is when a struct has another struct like member
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1. Why do we need structs?
To have more than one variable in order to represent an object
2. What are members in a struct?
The variables inside a struct
3. How do you access a member inside a struct?
Use the member selection operator which is a period
4. What is a nested struct?
A struct within a struct
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Why do we need structs?
Structs make it possible to tie together several different variables regardless of type and saves a lot of time. It is a starting point for object-oriented programming. -
What are members in a struct?
These are variables declared within a struct which can be accessed with the struct identifier. -
How do you access a member inside a struct?
You use the struct identifier and the member selector “.” -
What is a nested struct?
This is when you use a struct as variable inside another struct.
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- Structs allow to store mixed data types together into a single unit custom type
- Members ore fields are the variables that form a structure
- First declare a structure, for example Employee. Then to access a member inside, let’s say “name”, just type Employee.name , assuming “name” exists
- A nested struct are structs that contain other structs
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Its actually the other way around. It is a struct contained inside another struct
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Why do we need structs?
Structs allows us to create, store and access an organized group of different variables. -
What are members in a struct?
Members are the variables declared and held within a struct. -
How do you access a member inside a struct?
By using the member operator.
example:
Struct.member = x; -
What is a nested struct?
A nested struct is a struct within a struct. The example given in the reading was that of a struct Company that contains as a member a struct for employees.
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- Why do we need structs?
In order to represent multiple individual variables together.
- What are members in a struct?
Members are the variables that form the struct.
- How do you access a member inside a struct?
Using the member selection operator, which is a period. structIdentifier.member
- What is a nested struct?
These are structs that contain other structs.
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Its the other way around its a struct within a struct
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- Why do we need structs? In order to group multiple individual data variables together.
- What are members in a struct? Individual variables within the struct.
- How do you access a member inside a struct? Once a variable is defined that refers to the entire struct, individual members are accessed by the member selection operator, which is a period. i.e. joe.id or joe.age, etc.
- What is a nested struct? A struct contained inside another struct.
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- To represent different variables we can store inside one struct. Different from array since structs behave like objects.
- Variables
- Struct.member
- Struct inside another struct
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We need structs to be able to group and access different types of variables from an object. By using structs, we can get a function to return multiple variables.
The variables inside the struct are called members. They can be any types od variables.
By using dot notation.
eg.:
struct Wehicles
{
short numWheels;
short numDoors;
int capacity;
}
Wehicles car {4, 5, 5};
To access a member (numDoors), we use car.numDoors
A struct can hold other structs in them too, these are called nested structs. To access a value of a variable that is in a nested struct, we have to use dot notation twice.
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