Objects in Action
Consider the case of a program that displays a pie chart. A PieChart object could consist of the following:
Behavior to calculate how big each pie slice should be in the chart
Behavior to draw the chart
An attribute to store the title of the chart
When you compare a pie chart in the real world to a PieChart object in a computer program, it might seem odd to ask the PieChart object to draw itself. Graphs don't draw themselves in the real world. However, objects in object-oriented programming work for themselves whenever possible. This quality makes them more useful because you can incorporate them in other programs without having as many things to teach them. If a PieChart object did not know how to draw itself, for instance, every ...
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