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The Object-Oriented Thought Process, 5th Edition
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The Object-Oriented Thought Process, 5th Edition

by Matt Weisfeld
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
7h 27m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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11. Avoiding Dependencies and Highly Coupled Classes

As presented in Chapter 1, “Introduction to Object-Oriented Concepts,” the traditional criteria of classical object-oriented programming are encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Theoretically, to consider a programming language as an object-oriented language, it must follow these three principles. In addition, as also covered in Chapter 1, I like to include composition.

Thus, when I teach object-oriented programming, my list of fundamental concepts looks like this:

  • Encapsulation

  • Inheritance

  • Polymorphism

  • Composition

Tip

Perhaps I should add interfaces to this list, but I have always considered interfaces to be a specific type of inheritance.

Adding composition to this list is ...

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