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Showing posts with label objects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label objects. Show all posts
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Basics: Just what IS an object, anyway?

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This is a pretty long one by the standards of this blog.  Try to stay with it, though, the concepts are crucial. Whether people are experi...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Super basic object stuff

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I am not going to rework this right now, I think it gets the main points across as is. From a recent Reddit post: What you are a...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Design Patterns: Singleton

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The word 'singleton' is used to describe a design pattern for objects where only one instance of the object is allowed to exist. I...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Stop giving me so much static

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Let's talk about the keyword static for a moment. There are two different uses for this in our code.  It can be applied to methods or...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Encapsulation - Protecting You From Yourself

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Encapsulation sounds like the central plot point of some weird science fiction movie, but actually it's a fundamental technique for impr...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Diamonds are not an Object's Best Friend

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Once again, I turn to a post I made on reddit for inspiration. Some people wonder why inheritance branch but never join.  Why not tie two ...

Inheritance Part 1 - That Class is Super!

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I would like to discuss the concept of inheritance, and no, I don't mean the vase that Aunt Gladys left you in her will. When we talk ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Collections Part 1: List

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Let's talk about Collections.  I don't mean baseball cards...  or dust.  I'm talking about the Collections framework, which is a...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Don't Treat me Like an Object

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I originally posted this on Reddit, and got some positive feedback on it, so I thought I would put it up here as an early lesson in object ...