Contents

Why Object Orientation?

• Motivation for a new approach
• Models for Understanding and Communication
• Abstraction
• Hierarchy
• Modularity
• Encapsulation
  • References
• Modifiability
• Software Reuse

What is Object Orientation?

• Key Concepts of Object-Orientation
• The Procedural Approach
• Objects as Building Blocks
  • Why use objects as building blocks?
• Object Attributes
• Object Identity
• Object Operations
• Object State
  • Example
• Object Life Cycles (Contains Animation)
• A Note on the Word Object
  • Exercise
• Object Interactions (Contains Animation)
• Object Relations
  • Example
  • Telephone Exercise
  • Coffee Machine Exercise
• Object Relations during Object-Oriented Analysis
• Class
• More on Classes
  • Exercise
• Inheritance
  • Characteristics of
  • Abuse of
  • Exercise
• Polymorphism

How is Object Orientation applied?

• Object-Oriented Tools and Applications
• Programming
• Class Libraries
• Application Frameworks
• Object-Oriented Analysis & Design
• Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tools
• Database Management Systems
• Operating Systems
• Object Request Brokers

Exercises

• Identifying Objects
  • Solutions
• Object Relations, telephone exercise
  • Solutions
• Object Relations, coffee machine exercise
  • Solutions (Contains Animation)
• Designing Classes
  • Solution, part a)
  • Solution, part b)
  • Solution, part c)
• Inheritance
  • Solutions

Animations

• Object Life Cycles
• Object Interactions
• Solutions to coffee machine exercise

Miscellaneous

• Bibliography
• Dictionary
• Further reading on the internet
• About this material
• Help on this material
• Course evaluation

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