December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 44m
English
CHAPTER 7
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Behavioral Patterns
Each object used in a adds a specialized behavior. It may be computational or managerial, but regardless of the specifics, the objects aim to facilitate specific goals in a system.
Code that should be encapsulated is too often hard-coded in a class, due to the ease of maintaining scope. Time constraints, lack of practice, and unfamiliarity with better techniques are all reasons a developer may allow non-encapsulated behaviors to add unnecessary lines of code to classes. Doing so can make a class more difficult to maintain and adjust, and decreases the code’s reusability.
Behavioral patterns abstract the objects that ...
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