Experiencing Object Oriented Concepts
For Beginners
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When someone utters the word ‘CAR’ shown on the screen to you, you mentally create an idea about a car; a car with its essential characteristics. You will not mentally reconstruct an image of a refrigerator or for that matter any other kind of object, which does not resemble a car.
In a demonstrating scenario if someone points at a refrigerator and states “This is a car”, you will be astonished and not agree with his/her statement. The reason why you will not agree is that you have a definite idea about what a car is and what are its essential characteristics and its essential functions. This idea is a definition about the class ‘CAR’. Though this definition will not describe any one car in particular, it will generally distinguish these kinds of objects from the rest of the universe in totality.
It is noteworthy that a class will not specifically define a particular object. It will define only the essential characters about a group of similar objects.
Here we are only understanding what a class is, qualitatively. But as the book progresses we will be defining these characteristics much more definitely and quantitatively in IT environment.
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About the Book
This book introduces Object Oriented Concepts in an easy-to-understand format for anyone who is minimally computer literate; programming background is not a prerequisite. Rather, this book guides the reader towards programming techniques by helping the reader to experience Object Oriented Concepts as simple truths of our everyday experience of cognitive life.
Unlike other texts, the mode of instruction is ‘Show & Tell’. Upper half of every page has a content depicting the concepts and the lower half has a notes section, which interprets the content above. This format is a powerful viso-cognitive mode, a mode just powerful enough to impart Object Oriented Concepts and demonstrate its universality by applying it in various domains. Java programming language is gradually introduced for any non-programmer to become familiarized with Java in particular and Object Oriented or Object Based programming in general, like ‘C’, ‘C++’ etc. This book is ideally suitable for would-be software engineers and programmers with no prior programming experience.
About the Author
John E. Mathew is a Technocrat in the Information Technology
Industry with an experience spanning more than 15 years. He has been consulted or
employed by various Fortune 100 companies to resolve complex Architectural
issues in IT. He has published
texts on JAVA and JAVA related software, which were used as prescribed texts in
several Universities. He has earned M.S. in Information Management with a
stress in Strategic Information Management.