OO Concepts

The Goal: More Reliable Software, Increased Programmer Productivity, Decreased Cost of Development and Maintenance. Overall -> More Bang for the Buck.

The Concept: Model the Real-World Problem Domain ( Data and Functionality ), Increase Flexibility, Extensibility, amd Reusability.

• Encapsulation and Abstract Data Types
  • Classes and Objects, Attributes ( Data Members ) and Methods
  • Access — Public, Protected, and Private
  • Data Hiding and Loose Coupling

• Inheritance and Programming By Difference
  • Abstract and Concrete Classes
  • Composition and Aggregation

• Polymorphism and Late Binding
  • Overriding and Overloading