Checkpoint 1.19.1.
- abstraction
- focusing on desired behaviors and properties while disregarding what is irrelevant/unimportant
- class methods
- the functions that belong to a particular class
- collection
- a grouping of data items that have some shared significance or need to be operated upon together.
- object-oriented programming language
- uses objects to represent data and methods such as C++ and Java
- constructor
- an class’ special function that initializes an object of that class
- dereference
- follow a pointer to its referenced memory location and read the data there.
- object attribute
- a property of an object that describes what it "looks like"
- encapsulation
- hiding the contents of a class except when absolutely necessary
- parameter
- a variable in a function or method definition that accepts data passed from an argument.
- friend
- an operator or function that can access the private data members of a class
- friend function
- a function defined outside that class’ scope but has access to private and protected members of the class
- mutability
- able to be modified.
- function
- A section of code that performs a procedure and is usually named
- address-of
- &
- argument
- data passed to a parameter.
- array
- a data structure consisting of an ordered collection of data elements of identical type
- atomic data type
- basic data type that cannot be broken down into any simpler data elements.
- inheritance
- sharing/gaining the same behavior as another class
- polymorphism
- the ability to process objects or methods differently depending on their data type, class, number of arguments, etc.
- class
- a template for creating (instantiating) objects, for providing initial values for state via member variables
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