For example, when retrieving user input from the keyboard, we do not have to interact with the hardware and deal with all of the event handling necessary to retrieve user input from the keyboard. Instead, …

Python supports multiple programming paradigms, primarily but not limited to object-oriented, imperative and, to a lesser extent, functional programming styles.

With object-oriented programming, you start by creating classes that represent real-world entities. A class consists of code that describes a group of data items that represent the attributes of the entity …

Start with code pointers for D (inductive de nition!) Both approaches model dynamic-dispatch and are routinely formalized in PL papers. Real implementations a bit more clever. Di erence in approaches …

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. This book presents object-oriented programming with C++ and Java, which are to-day’s two dominant languages for such programming.

Classes and Objects Object-‐Oriented Programming (OOP): A programming paradigm that involves designing programs around concepts represented as "objects"

What is an object? an object is a software bundle of related fields (variables) and methods. In OOP, a program is a collection of objects that act on one another (vs. procedures).