What Is Object Orientation1 ?
The professional approach to programming has shifted away from designing systems with a hierarchy of features defined in functions toward an object-oriented (OO) approach. We look here at how Python fully supports object orientation.
In this book, we can only give a flavor of how objects are used. We work through an example and introduce some of the most basic concepts. We use some OO concepts in our explanation so you need a basic understanding of OO to work through this section.
In OO design, systems are composed of collaborating sets of well-defined objects. Rather than one piece of ...
