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Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition
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Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition

by Cristina Videira Lopes
July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 8m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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CHAPTER 11

Things

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11.1Constraints

The larger problem is decomposed into things that make sense for the problem domain.

Each thing is a capsule of data that exposes procedures to the rest of the world.

Data is never accessed directly, only through these procedures.

Capsules can reappropriate procedures defined in other capsules.

11.2A Program in This Style

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Note: If not familiar with Python, please refer to the Prologue (Pythonisms) ...

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