Object-Oriented Programming

Understand Basics of Object-Oriented Programming

Exploration

• Read chapter 3 of A First Course on Data Structures in Python
• Overview objects in ds2 package of donsheehy/datastructures

Activities

• Tuesday and Thursday: Object-oriented programming
  • Review the goals of object-oriented programming
  • Review the principles of object-oriented programming
    • Abstraction
    • Inheritance
    • Encapsulation
    • Polymorphism
  • Examine source code segments to illustrate trade-offs
  • Conduct experiments to measure performance of object-orientation
• Friday: Continue algorithm engineering project two (see the prior week for details about this project)

Slides

Full Screen: Week Three: Object-Oriented Programming in Python