Quotes About OOP

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Object-oriented programming imposes discipline on indirect transfer of control.

methods in objects are properties too. They just happen to have a function assigned to them.

Python programmers are able to write large OOP frameworks and applications without private declarations — an interesting finding about access controls in general that is beyond the scope of our purposes here.

As we get deeper into Python classes, though, keep in mind that the OOP model in Python is very simple; as we've seen here, it's really just about looking up attributes in object trees and a special function argument.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.