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down with oop

#7: Ooops... we could’ve covered more OOP

Chapter 10 introduced the important concept of classes, and throughout
the book we’ve touched on objects in lots of different places. Doing justice
to all the concepts of object oriented programming (OOP) would easily take
an entire book all on its own.
The bit of OOP covered in Chapter 10 relates to the concept of
encapsulation. This is the process of bundling data with methods into
prebuilt templates that can be used to create functionally identical objects of a
certain type.

Now... if your eyes glazed over reading that last line, don’t worry; you are
as normal as the rest of us. OOP is full of terminology like this. As well
as encapsulation, there’s inheritance and polymorphism, too.
Encapsulation?!?
Discussing all the ins and outs of OOP is something that takes a little
time and it is not something that we are going to try and do on just one Polymorphism?!?
page! Inheritance?!?
Could they not have
That said, OOP really comes into its own when your programs get very chosen such intimidating
large and turn into software systems. When systems start to scale terms?
(get really, really big), the importance of proper design takes center stage,
and OOP can help here—big time. Again, there’s help from those lovely
people at Head First Labs.

This book assumes you already
know a little bit about Java,
so consider reading Head
First Java first.

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