Learning Objectives

Through readings, lecture and labs, it is expected that you are doing work and seeking help to keep pace with the below objectives:

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
You should be comfortable with:
  • Using basic OOP terminology by being able to pick out examples of classes, objects and methods in object oriented code
  • Defining classes given a specification, including classes with __init__, __str__ and __lt__ methods
  • Defining and using objects of a given class

Required Reading

Supplemental Materials

We all need alternative presentations of the concepts from time to time. The following resources are optional. If something seems unclear after class, or the pratice questions seem hard for you, then explore these topics more using the resources below.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • Zelle, Sections 4.1, 4.2, 10.1 explain the notion of objects
  • Zelle, Sections 10.3, 10.4 go over the design of two sample classes

Practice

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