CSE 8B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10, 12: Abstract Data Type, Working Directory, Drive Letter Assignment
19 Jan 2017
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You do not know how exactly it works; all you need to know is how to make each component work together: you do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to k(cid:374)ow how (cid:373)ethods a(cid:396)e i(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)ted. A class is designed to be used by many different people: to be helpful to those people, the class must be widely customizable. Ideal way to couple values together is by creating an object that contains them all. Object-oriented paradigm couples data and methods together into object: combines procedural paradigm and integrates data into operations into objects. Object-oriented programming places data and methods into an object: organizes programs similar to real-world. Programming in java == thinking in terms of objects. Chapter 12 exception handling and text i/o. File class has methods obtaining properties of a file/directory and for renaming or deleting a file/directory. Absolute file name contains file name with complete path and drive letter. Relative file name has current working directory: complete directory path is omitted.
