Object Design Style Guide

Chapter 1. Programming with objects: A primer

This chapter covers

• Working with objects
• Unit testing
• Dynamic arrays

Before we get into the actual style guide, this chapter covers some of the fundamental aspects of programming with objects. We’ll briefly go over some important concepts and establish a shared terminology that we can build on in the following chapters.

We’ll be covering the following topics in this chapter:

• Classes and objects— Creating objects based on classes, using a constructor, static versus object methods, static factory methods for creating new instances, and throwing exceptions inside a constructor (section 1.1).
• State— Defining private and public properties, assigning values to them, constants, and mutable versus immutable ...