Programming in an Object-Oriented Environment

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

I Object-Oriented Concepts


1 Basic Concepts


1.1 A World Full of Objects


1.2 Modeling with Objects


1.3 Software Objects


1.4 Basic Terminology


1.5 Classes


1.6 Creating Objects from Classes


1.7 Composing an Object-Oriented Program


1.8 Summary of Chapter


2 The Object-Oriented Model of Computation


2.1 Objects Are Actors


2.2 Message Passing


2.3 Message Sending


2.4 Method Lookup and Binding


2.5 Overloading


2.6 Object Identity


2.7 Object Assignment


2.8 Object Self-Reference


2.9 Summary of Chapter


3 Class Hierarchy


3.1 Categorization


3.2 Extension


3.3 Specialization


3.4 A Matter of Type


3.5 Method Binding


3.6 Multiple Inheritance


3.7 Repeated Inheritance


3.8 Abstract Classes


3.9 Generic Classes


3.10 Inheritance versus Containership


3.11 Summary of Chapter


4 Encapsulation


4.1 What Is Encapsulation?


4.2 Differences in Encapsulation


4.3 Specifying Access Rights


4.4 The Trap Door to Encapsulation


4.5 Summary of Chapter


5 An Example Program


5.1 The Course Scheduling Application


5.2 An Object-Oriented Solution


5.3 Supporting Objects


5.4 The Person Class Hierarchy


5.5 Courses and Schedules


5.6 Creating Instances


5.7 Summary of Chapter


6 Object-Oriented Programming Languages


6.1 Elements of Object Orientation


6.2 Smalltalk


6.3 Objective-C


6.4 Eiffel


6.5 Object-Oriented Pascal


6.6 Summary of Chapter

II Object-Oriented Environment


7 The Object-Oriented Advantage


7.1 Introduction


7.2 Abstraction and Modularity


7.3 Information Hiding and Encapsulation


7.4 Reusability


7.5 Summary of Chapter


8 Elements of Object-Oriented Systems


8.1 Introduction


8.2 Programming with Classes


8.3 Programming with Objects


8.4 Program Organization


8.5 Summary of Chapter


9 Data Structures and Algorithms


9.1 Introduction


9.2 Magnitudes


9.3 String Handling


9.4 Input and Output


9.5 Collectibles


9.6 Class Libraries


9.7 Summary of Chapter


10 Object-Oriented User Interfaces


10.1 Introduction


10.2 Object Orientation


10.3 Device Independence


10.4 Reusable Components


10.5 User Interface Paradigms


10.6 User Interfaces: The Next Generation?


10.7 Summary of Chapter


11 Object-Oriented Databases


11.1 Introduction


11.2 Organization


11.3 Accessing a Separate Database


11.4 Incorporating Database and Language


11.5 Summary of Chapter


12 Object-Oriented Design


12.1 Introduction


12.2 Design Tools


12.3 A Design Method


12.4 Summary of Chapter

Conclusion

Appendixes

A Summary of Terms

B Listing: The Hello World Example

C Listing: A String Class

D Listing: The Course Scheduling Example

E Listing: A Generic Collection Class

Bibliography

Index