So said one of my delegates on todays course - pronounced with a long "I" - "Seemples". And we knew he was impersonating one of those meerkats
here. One of the classics of modern advertising along with
the Cadbury's Gorilla.
Object Oriented Programming is one of those subjects that many people find hard to grasp when they first come across it - but then there's a sudden, lighbulb, moment. And the basics and the beauty suddenly become clear as the delegate(s) say "YES", I have it.
Today, I spend in north Oxfordshire teaching a one day
Object Oriented Programming in PHP day to a room of well established PHP programmers - most with 5 to 7 years experience of the language, the "baby" as he celled himself with just 3 ... and I loved it. We looked at Object Orientation principles and how they're applied in PHP, we looked at MVC (Model, View, Controller) , the 4 layer model and UML ... and - wow - what a rewarding day. But not a long post tonight, as I worked my butt off, and am exhausted - all my energy into a rewarding course for me - and for them.
(written 2009-11-12)
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[507] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming - (2005-11-27)
[534] Design - one name, one action - (2005-12-19)
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML - (2006-03-24)
[747] The Fag Packet Design Methodology - (2006-06-06)
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[836] Build on what you already have with OO - (2006-08-17)
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[1528] Object Oriented Tcl - (2008-02-02)
[1538] Teaching Object Oriented Java with Students and Ice Cream - (2008-02-12)
[2169] When should I use OO techniques? - (2009-05-11)
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[2327] Planning! - (2009-08-08)
[2380] Object Oriented programming - a practical design example - (2009-08-27)
[2523] Plan your application before you start - (2009-12-02)
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins - (2010-04-11)
[2741] What is a factory? - (2010-04-26)
[2747] Containment, Associative Objects, Inheritance, packages and modules - (2010-04-30)
[2785] The Light bulb moment when people see how Object Orientation works in real use - (2010-05-28)
[2865] Relationships between Java classes - inheritance, packaging and others - (2010-07-10)
[2878] Program for reliability and efficiency - do not duplicate, but rather share and re-use - (2010-07-19)
[2889] Should Python classes each be in their own file? - (2010-07-27)
[2953] Turning an exercise into the real thing with extreme programming - (2010-09-11)
[2977] What is a factory method and why use one? - Example in Ruby - (2010-09-30)
[3063] Comments in and on Perl - a case for extreme OO programming - (2010-11-21)
[3085] Object Oriented Programming for Structured Programmers - conversion training - (2010-12-14)
[3260] Ruby - a training example that puts many language elements together to demonstrate the whole - (2011-04-23)
[3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains - (2011-09-24)
[3607] Designing your application - using UML techniques - (2012-02-11)
[3760] Why you should use objects even for short data manipulation programs in Ruby - (2012-06-10)
[3763] Spike solutions and refactoring - a Python example - (2012-06-13)
[3798] When you should use Object Orientation even in a short program - Python example - (2012-07-06)
[3844] Rooms ready for guests - each time, every time, thanks to good system design - (2012-08-20)
[3878] From Structured to Object Oriented Programming. - (2012-10-02)
[3887] Inheritance, Composition and Associated objects - when to use which - Python example - (2012-10-10)
[3928] Storing your intermediate data - what format should you you choose? - (2012-11-20)
[3978] Teaching OO - how to avoid lots of window switching early on - (2013-01-17)
[4098] Using object orientation for non-physical objects - (2013-05-22)
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