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📅 April 12, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 April 11, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 April 7, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 3 minutes read

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. …

📅 April 5, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 2 minutes read

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…

📅 April 5, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 2 minutes read

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…

📅 March 31, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 March 29, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 March 29, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 March 29, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 2 minutes read

Coupling – A Smaller Object Approach To Software Solutions

In object-oriented software, we talk about the concept of coupling. Put simply; this is a small object approach to our solution. It is the opposite end of the spectrum from large-object, or monolithic, designs. …

📅 March 22, 2021 A Practical Approach To Object-Oriented ⏱ 3 minutes read

Cohesion – A Big Object Approach To Design

This episode focuses on cohesion and the idea of using fewer large objects to solve a problem. This approach is often considered the opposite of using more smaller objects. We will find out that…