Terms and Concepts for 22c020, Summer 2001

The definitions given are memory aids to help you with the concepts that each term represents.


Encapsulation: Protecting the innerworkings with access control.
Information Hidding: Presenting an interface to the outside world rather than the innerworkings works with Encapsulation.
Object: A collection of data and operations on that data.
Polymorphism: Having 2 or more forms.
Edward W Sihler (esihler@cs.uiowa.edu)

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