hey Tom, that makes so much sense now, all I have to do is figure out how to
write it, which shouldn't be a problem in the sense of the word *smile*
BEAN
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From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: audyssey: new to list
> Hi Richard,
> I love object oriented programming, and practically refuse to use any
> language that is not oop. Once you get use to oop you will find out you
> love it.
> Let me try and explain this as symply as possible. Perhaps the techno
> talk in class rooms and books threw you where a practical explanation
> will do.
> The idea of object oriented programming, (oop,) is the concept you are
> working with values that are related to a specific object like a rope,
> wall, car, gun, etc.. rather than independant variables, and unrelated
> data storage.
> Let's think of a simple idea. How about creating a dog. Wouldn't you
> like to have everything related to a dog in it's own area, and functions
> to access it in the same place? Ok, here you go with a class which holds
> all that info, and gives you a new data type called dog.
>
> class Dog {
>
> private:
>
> // private class variables go here.
>
>
> public:
>
> // public class methods go here to access the variables.
> };
>
> Once you actually have the class then you can not only create a dog, but
> name that object like Buddy.
>
> Dog Buddy = new Dog();
>
> Here is the great thing about oop languages. Not only could you create
> Buddy, but this class can be used to create an entire list of dogs, and
> you don't have to asign variables and functions for all the dogs,
> because the class, your data type, holds all that info. So you could
> make several dogs.
>
> Dog Buddy = new Dog();
> Dog Princess = new Dog();
> Dog Fluffy = new Dog();
>
>
>
> Another fantastic thing about oop is inheritence. Being able to share
> data between different classes that are related in some whay. For
> example, in my Monty engine I have a Character class that is used
> genericly for the player, monsters, etc however the monsters and player
> has specific classes for them. Let's look at this.
>
>
> class Character {
>
> protected:
>
> // common character, monster, and player variables
> // go here.
>
> public:
>
> // Common methods for
> // other classes go here.
> };
>
>
> class Player: Character {
>
> private:
>
> // Specific player variables go here such as:
> // scoring, gold, gems, etc...
>
> public:
>
> // Specific methods to access the
> // specific player variables.
> };
>
> Once created just doing something like
>
> Player player1 = new Player();
>
> allows me to have access to the player variables, and the character
> variables at the same time. Not only that the new instance of player
> creates the places in memory for the player and character values I need
> to hold the data. Rather than have to create a variable everytime I need
> one one simple constructor or new instance alocates the memory. Calling
> the class destructor whipes all those variables out of memory in one
> single line of code.
> Perhaps, you may not completely understand oop and how it works, but I
> think you can understand why programmers like it so much.
>
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