OOP summary
Here's a quick table summarizing the concepts discussed so far:
Feature |
Illustrates concept |
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Bob is a man (an object). |
Objects |
Bob's date of birth is June 1, 1980, gender: male, and hair: black. |
Properties |
Bob can eat, sleep, drink, dream, talk, and calculate his own age. |
Methods |
Bob is an instance of the |
Class (in classical OOP) |
Bob is based on another object, called |
Prototype (in prototypal OOP) |
Bob holds data (such as |
Encapsulation |
You don't need to know how the calculation method works internally. The object might have some private data, such as the number of days in February in a leap year. You don't know, nor do you want to know. |
Information hiding |
Bob is part of a |
Aggregation and composition |
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Inheritance |
You can call the methods |
Polymorphism and method overriding |