CS 115 Reading: Week 13

Object-Oriented Programming (continued from Week 12)

By the end of Week 13, you should be comfortable with:

• Using basic object-oriented terminology and identifying 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.

Suggested readings:

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist has a great introduction to OOP.
• Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 10.1 of your textbook explain the notion of objects and how they relate to the graphics library.
• Section 10.3 and 10.4 of your textbook go over the design of two sample classes.