Chapter 10. Object-Oriented Programming

In this chapter:

  • The benefits of classes

  • Polymorphism

  • Properties, methods, and events

  • Shared and instance members

  • Inheritance

  • Overriding and shadowing members

  • Abstraction and refinement

  • Multiple inheritance and interfaces

  • Constructors and destructors

IN A MODERN OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGE, A program consists of a group of objects working together to perform a task. One object interacts with the others by reading and setting the other objects’ properties, calling the other objects’ methods, and responding to the other objects’ events.

In a well-defined program, the objects represent more-or-less intuitive entities, and their behaviors are easy to understand. For example, a Customer object would provide customer-related ...

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