Contents

• Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • History notes
• Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • History notes
  • Preface
• An Object-Oriented World
  • Encapsulation Example
  • Inheritance Example
  • Polymorphism Example
  • A Word of OOP Vocabulary
• The Characteristics of an OOP
  • What is An Object?
  • Abstraction
  • Sample Class Definition
• Encapsulation
  • Instance and Class Variables
  • Instance and Class Methods
  • Messages
  • Constructors, Destructors, and Garbage Collection
• Inheritance
  • Single and Multiple Inheritance
  • The ISA Relationship
• Polymorphism
  • Overloading Methods as a Form of Polymorphism
  • Overloading of Operators
  • Overriding Methods as a Form of Polymorphism
• Exception Handling
  • Exception Hierarchy
  • Advantages of Using Exception Handling
• Intro to Object-Oriented Design
• A few final remarks of OOP
• About this document ...