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data abstraction abstraction 2.1 - What is Object Orientation? the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit the details of data a programmer to cope with the complexity of data

variable a particular object, several different objects during the execution of a program, or no object at all comment if it is non-obvious data item 2.3 - Instance Variables A place where you can put data different classes of objects depending on the type of the variable

attribute a particular object, several different objects during the execution of a program, or no object at all an implicit internal structure private public methods so that attributes are only given valid values and so that you can change the internal design of the class without affecting how users of the class interact with it a model unless it is relevant to the application - it will be needed to implement some requirement variable 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit the details of data the analysis and design stage before it is known how the attribute will be implemented A simple data item present in all the instances of a class a programmer to cope with the complexity of data a variable number of things an instance variable in Java looking at the description of the system and searching for information that must be maintained about each class different classes of objects depending on the type of the variable

Subject	refer to	have	be	access through	add to	is a kind of	is a subtopic of	group	hide	use in	has definition	help	represent	implement as	identify by	contain
data abstraction						abstraction	2.1 - What is Object Orientation?	the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit	the details of data			a programmer to cope with the complexity of data
variable	a particular object, several different objects during the execution of a program, or no object at all	comment if it is non-obvious				data item	2.3 - Instance Variables				A place where you can put data					different classes of objects depending on the type of the variable
attribute	a particular object, several different objects during the execution of a program, or no object at all	an implicit internal structure	private	public methods so that attributes are only given valid values and so that you can change the internal design of the class without affecting how users of the class interact with it	a model unless it is relevant to the application - it will be needed to implement some requirement	variable	9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design	the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit	the details of data	the analysis and design stage before it is known how the attribute will be implemented	A simple data item present in all the instances of a class	a programmer to cope with the complexity of data	a variable number of things	an instance variable in Java	looking at the description of the system and searching for information that must be maintained about each class	different classes of objects depending on the type of the variable

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