Object Oriented Programming

This week’s post offers a review of theconcept of immutable classes, and suggestions for best practices inimplementation.  An immutable class is “aclass whose instances cannot be modified” (Bloch, 2018, p. 80) . There are many well-known immutable classes in the Java platformlibraries such as String and primitive classes like Integer and Double (Temre, 2015). To illustrateconsider …

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This article was originally written as part of a discussion with peers at Walden University.  It introduces the concepts of abstraction and encapsulation, subsequently offering illustrations as to how the concepts are used in software development. Abstraction is “the process of taking away or removing characteristics from something in order to reduce it to set …

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