Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

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Concepts

• why not lists and dictionaries?
• encapsulation (bundling data and methods that operate on the data)
• classes and objects
• attributes (instance variables)
• methods (like functions)
• special methods: __init__, __str__
• inheritance: super().__init__()
• operator overloading: e.g. __add__, __eq__

Resources on OOP

• CS50P (Harvard online course)
  • notes
  • video
• Classes and Objects — the Basics
• Classes and Objects — Digging a little deeper

example code from class

• oopdemo.py