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The ***** of an object is the condition of the object, or a set of circumstances describing the object.
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state
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The state of an objct is ******** to that object.
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Internal
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The state of an object will not change unless...
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...something outside of the object requests the object to change it's state.
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What kind of objects can change their own state?
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Object with life,
Active Objects, or Actors (all different terms w/ the same meaning) |
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A pattern, template or blueprint for a category of structurally identical items.
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Class
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Items created using the class are called:
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Instances
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This consists of both a pattern and a mechanism for creating items based on that pattern.
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Class - instance factory
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What are the individual items taht are 'manufactured' (created) using the class's creation mechanism.
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Instances
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A **** is the set of all instances of that pattern.
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Class
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A ******** is a class whose instances themselves are classes.
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Metaclass
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A ******************* is a template for a class where in specific items have been identified as being required to create non-parameterized classes based on the template.
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Parameterized class
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An instance of a class that is not a class
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Non-class instance
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the process of creating an instance of a class
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Instantiation (verb)
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an instance of a class
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Instantiation (noun)
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an object that has no externally-discernible structure.
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Monolithic object
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Only the ********* of an object knows the details about the internal construction of that object.
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Producer, creator, designer, or builder
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this is the interface that is accessible only by direct specializations of the object.
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Inheritance interface
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This interface defines the parameters that must be supplied to create an instance of the parameterized class.
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Parameter interface
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the process of creating a new object from two or more other objects
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aggregation
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an object that is composed of two or mor other objects
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aggregate
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Objects that have an externally discernible structure and the structure can be addressed via the public interface of this kind of object.
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Composite Objects
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Example of a monolithic object
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Radio button
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an object that does not appear to have been constructed from two or more other objects.
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Monolithic object
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Objects that are comprised a composite object are referred to as:
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component objects
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a composite object that is conceptually composed of component objects taht are not all conceptually the same
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heterogeneous composite objects
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a composite object that is conceptually composed of component objects taht are conceptually the same.
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homogeneous composite object
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the actual algorithim for accomplishing an operation is referred to as
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a Method
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Operations that meet these two criteria: things that happen to an object and in the public interface of that object.
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Suffered operations
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An operation taht tells us something about the state of an object
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selector
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an operation taht has the ability to change the state of an object
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constructor
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