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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.

Polymorphism Without Side Effects – Object-Oriented Clarity

February 27, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

We discussed in the previous episode how polymorphic behavior gives us a form of a common language for objects. Thus we need to consider the idea of polymorphism without side effects, so…

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Polymorphism Overview – Reducing code size and a better user experience

February 25, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

We start the next series of episodes with a polymorphism overview. This is a core concept for proper object-oriented design. Likewise, we will dig into several practical ways to use this. Polymorphism…

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Data Hiding – Practical Accessors

February 22, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

We have discussed the accessor levels of our data. In most environments, the three levels are public, protected, and private. In this episode, we go deeper into these concepts and a practical…

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A Practical Approach to Data Encapsulation

February 19, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

We have developed many bad habits over the years as OOP has proliferated frameworks and tools. In this episode, we look at the practical side of data encapsulation and access levels like…

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Data Hiding – A Need To Know Software Approach

February 17, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

Data encapsulation and data hiding are terms for keeping object properties from public consumption. This concept is an essential part of object-oriented programming. We need to be able to have internal processes…

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An Introduction to The Object-Oriented Programming Season

February 15, 2021 • A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and related concepts have become almost ubiquitous in modern software projects. It was a novel idea a few decades ago that has been incorporated into many frameworks and languages.…

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