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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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📅 March 31, 2021

Constructors And Initializers In Object-Oriented Design

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 instance and are an essential part of our…

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📅 March 29, 2021

Static Attributes And Methods In Object-Oriented Design

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 break the object-oriented nature of our program. We…

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📅 March 29, 2021

Software Design – Finding Balance With Coupling And Cohesion

We have spent a few episodes looking at cohesion and coupling. Now it is time to find balance in these two software design approaches. Each approach has strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, our best approach is to combine the strengths while…

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