We have been studying Object Oriented Programming and have
found it interesting to say the least.
As the structure and presentation of the course material has been much
different than taking CSC108, it has taken some time to adjust to a different
way of learning. The readings that
have been posted have been lengthy but informative. I did not fully grasp the concept of Object
Oriented Programming (OOP) from CSC108, but found the reading posted about OOP
from week1 readings most useful. There
was one analogy that has really stuck with me from this reading.
“It may
be helpful to think of a class as a factory for making objects. The class
itself isn’t an instance of a point, but it contains the machinery to make
point instances. Every time we call the constructor, we’re asking the factory
to make us a new object. As the object comes off the production line, its
initialization method is executed to get the object properly set up with its
factory default settings.”
This
gave me a good understanding of what making a Class is all about and strangely
enough why we would want/need to make a new Class. Being able to define your own classes
allows you to build your own uniqueness to programs. Being able to change an equality method to
make it unique to the class or changing any other built-in method to make it
perform how the designer of the class wants it to is quite interesting.
