What’s New in the Fourth Edition
As stated often in this introduction, my vision for the first edition was to stick to the concepts rather than focus on a specific emerging technology. Although I still adhere to this goal for the second, third, and fourth editions, I have included chapters on several application topics that fit well with object-oriented concepts. Chapters 1–10 cover the fundamental object-oriented concepts, and Chapters 11–15 are focused on applying these concepts to some general object-oriented technologies. For example, Chapters 1–10 provide the foundation for a course on object-oriented fundamentals (such as encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance, and the like), with Chapters 11–15 adding some practical applications.
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