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The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

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A class is a set of objects that share a common structure and a common behavior

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The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

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Good people with a good process will outperform good people with no process every time.

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The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction.

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An operation is some action one object performs upon another in order to elicit a reaction.

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Typically, a subclass augments or redefines the existing structure and behavior of its superclasses.

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C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

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In a quality object-oriented software system, you will find many classes that speak the language of the domain expert

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The class Dog is functionally cohesive if its semantics embrace the behavior of a dog, the whole dog, and nothing but the dog.

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[A class category is] a collection of classes, some of which are visible to other class categories, and others of which are hidden.

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Perhaps the greatest strength of an object-oriented approach to development is that it offers a mechanism that captures a model of the real world.

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The object-oriented paradigm is useful when building software systems where there is a hierarchy defined as a ranking or ordering of abstractions.

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If an abstraction is a kind of some other abstraction, or if it is exactly equal to the sum of its components, then inheritance is a better approach

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Object-oriented analysis is a method of analysis that examines requirements from the perspective of the classes and objects found in the vocabulary of the problem domain.

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Structured design does not scale up well for extremely complex systems, and this method is largely inappropriate for use with object-based and object-oriented programming languages.

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