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Showing posts with label oop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oop. 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...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Inheritance Part 2: That's Rather Abstract, Isn't it?

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I hope you've been browsing through Java source code outside of your own and the small samples I've provided on this site.  Reading ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Good Practices: Coding to the Interface

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You will sometimes hear someone recommend that you 'code to the interface'.  What the heck does that mean? Well, I'm going to ...
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 ...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Collections Part 2: Map

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It's time to talk about the Map. Sometimes we need to store and retrieve information based on its relationship to other information in...
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...