The final type of data structure that we will look at is the Data Transfer Object (DTO). What’s a DTO? Like the name says, the main purpose of a DTO is to transfer data. In it’s purest form, a DTO is a data structure that has only public properties, and no methods of any kind….
How much information about one object should another object have? Should an object be able to access the inner objects of another one? The law of Demeter Simply put, the Law of Demeter says that an object shouldn’t have knowledge of the inner workings of another object. A method in an object should only have…
An Object and a Data Structure are not the same thing. What’s the difference? An object hides its data behind abstractions and data objects. When dealing with an object, we know what it can do and can see its public properties, but we don’t really know how the data is stored, or how the object…
Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm in which we use real world concepts or objects and create abstractions that will represent them in our software. Data Abstraction When we create an abstraction to represent a real world concept or object, we have to decide what that abstraction will expose and what it will hide (private…