CSC 143/Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Object Oriented Programming (Review)

Chapter 8 Summary

Chapter 8 concepts:

• Object oriented programming (classes and objects)
• Object state (fields) and behavior (methods); accessors
• Object initialization (constructors)
• Encapsulation (private fields)
• Case study: Stock class

Chapter 8 Code

Lecture Code

We have a simple object-oriented hello world program implemented in the 00_HelloWorld folder in the Github repository.

Worksheet Code

Polynomials:

• In this assignment, you'll implement a Polynomial object
• Design the data structure for the polynomial object
• Implement 3 methods:
  • Add to another polynomial object
  • Evaluate the polynomial at x
  • Find roots if degree < 3