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📅 April 14, 2021

Leverage Your Language – Use What It Gives You

An often overlooked facet of object-oriented design is how to leverage your language to speed development. Every coding language has features and strengths to make your design or implementation better. We should not design to a language initially. However, we…

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📅 April 12, 2021

Finding Balance In Your Object-Oriented Design Complexity

There are many areas of life where moderation is required. Object-oriented design complexity is one of those situations. We can create a solution that is highly granular and flexible or one that is monolithic and simple. However, as is often…

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📅 April 11, 2021

Documentation Of Our Object-Oriented Solution

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. However, we also are quick to complain about…

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📅 April 7, 2021

Test-Driven Development – A Better Object Oriented Design Approach

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 improve re-use. This episode focuses on TDD and…

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📅 April 5, 2021

Testing Object-Oriented Code – A Better Design Approach

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 ensure that our code is written with a…

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📅 April 5, 2021

Destructors And Cleaning Up An Instance: Object-Oriented Design

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 in a mirror fashion. While a constructor creates…

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