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📅 February 19, 2021

A Practical Approach to Data Encapsulation

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 private, protected, and public. Tools Are A Beginning…

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📅 February 17, 2021

Data Hiding – A Need To Know Software Approach

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 and values that we can change without impacting…

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📅 February 15, 2021

An Introduction to The Object-Oriented Programming Season

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. We even have situations where OOP was “bolted…

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📅 December 30, 2020

The 21-Day Habit Building Challenge

We decided that it is a good idea to start a new year with a habit building challenge. Therefore, we have created exactly that. The objective of this challenge is to pick something you will work on every day. The…

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📅 December 25, 2020

Successful Completion, Declaring Victory, and Planning The Next Steps

Sooner or later, a task we work on will reach successful completion. That is the goal, and yes, sometimes (hopefully often) we do achieve goals. There is value in resting in that success for a time. However, time marches on,…

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📅 December 23, 2020

The Weight of Waiting Until The Last Minute

It is not hard to find a movie or show during the holidays that shows the weight of waiting until the last minute to get things done. It often is shown in terms of delaying your gift purchases. However, we…

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