INF/231 INF231 INF 231 WEEK 2 DISCUSSION 3

 INF 231 WEEK 2 DISCUSSION 3

Discussion 3

We learned from this week’s lecture that object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming language model organized around objects rather than "actions" and data rather than logic. An object stores its state in variables (fields) and exposes its behavior through methods. “Methods operate on an object's internal state and serve as the primary mechanism for object-to-object communication” (Oracle, n.d., para.4). The Oracle tutorial on Object-Oriented Programming: What is an object? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. identifies four benefits that bundling code into individual software objects provides: 1) modularity, 2) information-hiding, 3) code re-use, and 4) pluggability and debugging ease (Oracle, n.d.).

Choose one of the four identified benefits in using objects in software development.  Explain the benefit. Discuss why the benefit is important if you and a peer in the class were working jointly to develop a program. In contrast, identify what might occur in your joint programming effort if you and your peer could not take advantage of the benefit you highlighted.  This would be true in structured programming which is the implementation of the source code being processed in the order in which bits of the code have been typed in. 

Your initial response should be a minimum of 250 words in length.

Guided Response: Review several of your peers’ posts. Respond to at least two of your peers. Find at least two peers who identified the same benefit (if possible).  Compare your lists of why the benefit is important. Make suggestions to add to your peer’s list. Enhance your list of benefits based on your peer’s post. Post your joint list.  Respond to at least two of your peers and provide discussion to extend their thinking on the importance of using software objects in programming.