Mini-report for Demland:

[azurelunatic]

Why Object Oriented is so much better than Structural (5 reasons)

1. Object Oriented designs simulate real-world objects, making them more intuitive to work with.


2. Encapsulation is possible, so they can be accessed in only authorized ways.


3. Cuts down on the if/then statements; objects can deal with a variety of different things without having to be told explicitly what to do with them by the sender.


4. Inheritance. Nice yummy inheritance. I love inheritance. It's got class.


5. Object-oriented programming can be used with any programming language.

(1-4 from http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/8, 5 from http://www.ercb.com/brief/brief.0097.html)

Comments

[wolfshaman.livejournal.com]

Yep, OO is the only way to go. To me one of the most important reasons
is easy code re-useability.

Also, architecture and design are much easier
to do.

[azurelunatic]

nRon taught us about reusable code. Game design: evidently this one guy wrote a game, and the game was okay, and then he reused the game engine in his next game, which was a success. He came in and spoke with a previous class of nRon's, and they accused him of having set up the whole thing beforehand, as nRon had been going on about reusable code.

I like this stuff, though I'm still feeling fairly disoriented.

Re:

[wolfshaman.livejournal.com]

The best cure for that is to do it. Writing and debugging is the only way to learn it.

Not sure what languages you are working in but I do java for a living. If you need help or have questions just ask.
:)

[azurelunatic]

mkay.

You may or may not hear bitching in journal about stuff. Right now I'm taking the classes for Oracle, Object Oriented Design with UML among other happy things, and then Web Design. Whee fun.

Must remind self that I am smarter than the computer.