[Tutor] [Slightly OT] Inheritance, Polymorphism and Encapsulation

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed Sep 19 09:25:34 CEST 2007


"Stephen Nelson-Smith" <sanelson at gmail.com> wrote

> I do think this is a good question for getting a sense of where a
> person's understanding is.  I wonder how much this understanding is 
> a
> pre-requistite for being a good developer... not too much I hope!

To use classes/objects yuou don;t need to understand the fundamentals
too much. To build OO designs you need to understand much more.
To build a new OOP you must understand it intimately!

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Alan Gauld
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