OOP Features

• Data Abstraction
  • User Need Not Worry About Implementation Details

• Data Encapsulation
  • Information Hiding

• Inheritance and Information Sharing
  • Eliminates Duplication of Data and Behaviors
  • Depicted with an Inheritance Diagram
  • Multilevel Inheritance is depicted with an Inheritance Hierarchy Diagram

• Object Structure before Implementation Details
  • Allows for More Analysis Prior to Implementation

Benefits of OOP

• Analysis and Design Made Easier
• Code Reuse
• Ease of Maintenance and Enhancement
• Iterations Fewer and Shorter

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