Description

This course introduces the student to object-oriented design. A combination of lectures and demonstrations will illustrate the differences between procedural and object-oriented program development.

Audience

Mainframe application developers who do not have any exposure to object-oriented application development.

Prerequisite

A basic understanding of the Windows environment and fundamental knowledge of a structured application programming language.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• understand the roots and benefits of object-oriented application design
• illustrate the key object-oriented concepts of inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation and abstraction
• define an object and the manner in which it can be instantiated
• understand a class definition and its integral components of data and access method
• discuss the major differences between procedural and object-oriented application development
• define the components of an object-oriented environment
• discuss the differences in developing GUI applications using object-oriented techniques
• illustrate event-driven programming and its role in an object-oriented application environment