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Author: Rob Broadhead

Rob is a founder of, and frequent contributor to, Develpreneur. This includes the Building Better Developers podcast. He is also a lifetime learner as a developer, designer, and manager of software solutions. Rob is the founder of RB Consulting and has managed to author a book about his family experiences and a few about becoming a better developer. In his free time, he stays busy raising five children (although they have grown into adults). When he has a chance to breathe, he is on the ice playing hockey to relax or working on his ballroom dance skills.

Documentation Of Our Object-Oriented Solution

April 11, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

It is hard to think of a facet of software development that programmers dislike more than documentation. This task is almost always pushed to the end, and shortcuts are used wherever possible. …

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Test-Driven Development – A Better Object Oriented Design Approach

April 7, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

Testing and Design are often at opposite ends of the software development life-cycle. However, test-driven development is an excellent way to drive our design. It can help us build better classes and…

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Testing Object-Oriented Code – A Better Design Approach

April 5, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

We have spent a lot of time on the core concepts of object-oriented design and programming. However, testing object-oriented code is at least as essential to our practical approach. We need to…

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Destructors And Cleaning Up An Instance: Object-Oriented Design

April 5, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

When we get to the end of our use of a class instance, we need to clean up after ourselves. This is where destructors come into play. They are similar to constructors…

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Constructors And Initializers In Object-Oriented Design

March 31, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

When we create an instance of a class, we often need to do some initialization. Constructors and initializers achieve this goal. These are two different ways to get our data into an…

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Static Attributes And Methods In Object-Oriented Design

March 29, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

In this episode, we look at how to use static attributes and methods in our class design. These are important but can be over-used. They can even be a supported way to…

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