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Get Programming

by Ana Bell
April 2018
Beginner
456 pages
11h 20m
English
Manning Publications
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Unit 8. Using libraries to enhance your programs

For the most part, all the programs you’ve written have relied on combinations of built-in objects and objects that you created yourself. A large part of programming is learning to use code that others have written to your advantage. You can bring their code into your own and then use functions and classes that they’ve already written. You’ve done this a little already in some of the capstone projects.

Why would you want to do this? Often, different programmers need to do the same set of tasks. Instead of coming up with their own solutions independently, they can use libraries that contain code to help them achieve their goals. Many languages allow programmers to create libraries. The library may ...

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