Week 2: Object Oriented Programming

Readings

• Section 1.13.1
  • This is long and detailed
  • But it covers most everything you need to know about objects
• Section 1.13.2
  • This starts to get a bit more confusing.
  • The semi-important aspect of this is the concept of inheritance and not the actual implementation of the inheritance in the Logic Gates example.
    • Pay attention to the discussions about inheritance more than any code itself.
    • Cross reference this with the discussion about inheritance from my videos above.

Additional Resources

• If you think you are starting to get it but you want to hear it ONE MORE TIME from a different source, consider the following resources I really like:
  • How to Explain OOP to a 6 year old.
    • A good article to revisit the 4 pillars of Object Oriented Programming
  • Object Oriented Programming in 7 minutes video
    • You may want to turn on the closed captioning
  • Grab the book you used in FCCS
    • Read pp 350-356
 

• You may have noticed this on the table of contents page for your textbook. Professor Gerry Jenkins is a retired professor from Long Beach City College who made a bunch of videos to correspond with the readings in your textbook. I have NOT viewed all of them. But, I know how helpful it can be to have a wide variety of study resources.
  • Videos 15 - 20 on this playlist correspond to material we covered this week. (To be more accurate, 15-17 align with our course. Videos 18-20 go into deeper detail on things mostly beyond the scope of this course.
 

• If you find this information about programming languages interesting you might grab your book from FCCS and read pp 306-316 to read about the evolution and different types of of computer programming languages
  • For this course we are most interested in the material on OOP on pp 315-316
  • Having said that, the material on 306-314 is stuff that you might read in the big picture of things.