Hour 10. Creating Your First Object
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Creating an object
• Describing an object with attributes
• Determining how objects behave
• Combining objects
• Inheriting from other objects
• Converting objects and other types of information
One of the more fearsome examples of jargon that you encounter during these 24 hours is object-oriented programming (OOP). This complicated term describes, in an elegant way, what a computer program is and how it works.
Before OOP, a computer program was usually described under the simplest definition you’ve learned in this book: a set of instructions listed in a file and handled in some kind of reliable order.
By thinking of a program as a collection of objects, you can figure out ...
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