Objects and classes: the basic concepts
Learning outcomes
The material and exercises in this chapter will enable you to:
•. Recognize some of the problems associated with traditional ways of developing software systems
•. Explain how the object-oriented approach addresses these problems
•. Describe the main features of an object and why it is effective as a software construct
•. Apply the concept of a class and explain the relationship between objects and classes
•. Identify the object relationships: association, aggregation and composition
•. Apply inheritance and polymorphism.
Key words you will find in the glossary:
• aggregation
• association
• attribute
• class
• client–server
• cohesion
• composition
• data hiding
• dynamic binding ...
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