1.6. Key Point Summary

  • Object-oriented design is an intuitive way of thinking about the world and is based on an activity called abstracting. Abstracting includes finding similarities in objects and classifying them according to their behaviors.

  • Object Modeling Technique (OMT) is a process that helps you design solutions to problems. It includes a multipart model and a notation.

  • The object model is the static structure of a system. It describes classes of objects and their relation to each other. Relationships between classes are called associations.

  • Associations can be one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many, or optional. Many means zero or more by default. We can specify other meanings, such as one or more, 0 through 3, inclusive, etc. Optional ...

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