Object-Oriented Programming and Representation of Objects

• Authors: Adam Drozdek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, a lesson is drawn from the way class definitions are provided in object-oriented programming. The distinction is introduced between the visible structure given in a class definition and the hidden structure, and then possible connections are indicated between these two structures and the structure of an entity modeled by the class definition.

Keywords

EN

objects-oriented programming; representation of objects; computer science; visible and hidden structures

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 293-302

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-04-10

Contributors

author

Adam Drozdek

• Duquesne University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2015-0014