Summary

In this chapter, the following topics have been discussed:

• We gave a thorough explanation of object-orientation philosophy and how you can extract an object model from your mind map.
• We also introduced the concept of the domain and how it should be used to filter the mind map to just keep relevant concepts and ideas.
• We also introduced the attributes and behaviors of a single object and how they should be extracted from either the mind map or the requirements given in the description of a domain.
• We explained why C cannot be an OOP language and explored its role in the translation of OOP programs into low-level assembly instructions that eventually will be run on a CPU.
• Encapsulation, as the first principle in OOP, was discussed. We use encapsulation to create capsules (or objects) that contain a set of attributes (placeholders for values) and a set of behaviors (placeholders for logic).
• Information-hiding was also discussed, including how it can...