Just for my own benefit really, I wanted to put the definitions down in my own words.
The 3 tenets (pillars?) of OOP are: Encapsulation, Inheritance & Polymorphism.
- Encapsulation: instance variables can only be accessed by instance methods. Objects cannot get directly at the internal data of other objects.
- Inheritance: Sub-classes can inherit the behaviours of super-classes (and extend them).
- Polymorphism: An object can send the same message (call the same method) on different objects. It doesn't matter whether the methods perform vastly different actions; the interface is the same.
Have I grossly over-simplified? Any other suggestions? What about Abstraction? Is that covered by Encapsulation or not?
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