On 11 Jan 2008 10:57:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: >And one of the biggest "problems" with OOP is the use of object >libraries. For __beginning__ students, using OOP usually means just >"wiring together" a number of pre-existing objects, or maybe just >extending an existing object. WITHOUT REALLY KNOWING HOW THE OBJECT >WORKS! You end up with something that may give the desired result, but >the programmer really has no idea why it works or even if there is a >better way (faster, less memory footprint, etc).
Often that's great. Who needs to know how a radio button works, as long as it works as advertised? There isn't an awfully lot of conceptual difference between programming a report on CoBOL or creating a video on iMovie. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
