>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Aaron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:05 PM
>Subject: Re: [sqlite] Structured or Object-Oriented?
>
>Hi John, I fully understand, and if It wasn't for my final degree I would
>simply just go with the flow, but I have to choose a method and justify why
>I chose it, which is doing my headin at the moment. lol
>
>Thanks for your comments.
>
>Aaron.
The arguments for using OOP could be high modularity, encapsulation of
SQLite database functionality, multiple instances and heredity, association
of data with its related methods, the fact that the language and platform
you are using (C# and DotNet no?) is already strongly OO.
As I understand it, structured programming does not actually exclude OO:
maybe your tutor is putting you under test to make sure you have a good
grasp of the fundamentals;
The nice thing about OOP is that you can make it self commenting:
If DatabaseIsConnected
then
OpenMainModule
else
TellUserDatabaseIsDown;
CloseProgram;
(Pseudocode)
The four methods (DatabaseIsConnected, OpenMainModule,
TellUserDatabaseIsDown, CloseProgram)
can then be reduced in their internals to the same type of structure (in its
way a form of structural or at least procedural programming);
In your situation I would have a real blitz on OOP: it's not just theory, it
will be extremely useful in the real world (many of the worst problems I
have seen in my recent collaborations would have been avoided with prior
rigorous application of OO from their beginnings: someone with a good grasp
of OO would simply not create certain structures);
