As I stated in my last post, I would like to see this category on my blog become a tutorial for OOP. As such I felt it quite beneficial here to reference an article written by Jay Kimble defining the terms.
You can find it here.
Ok, If you have been following Jay Kimble's blog you have read about me and my lack of Object Oriented Programming. It's not that I don't understand what OOP is. It's also not that I don't understand some of the benefits of OOP. My dilema stems from working as a contractor. Two major problems here. First, I have had no-one to mentor me in this area. I lost all professional contact with developers who were better than I about the time my company was embracing .NET and these new technologies. Prior to that I had ample opportunity to learn in the technologies we were using at the time (classic asp, vb 6.0, etc...) but have never had this benefit in the .NET world. The second problem is that now that I'm an independant contractor I have so little time to spend investigating new architecture that I have been afraid to take the leap from my classic coding approach. I am too busy being CEO, Marketing Director, CFO, CTO, Sales Director, DBA, Sr Developer, Grunt Code Monkey, Project Manager, Receptionist, Janitor... ok, you get the idea.
Despite the time crunch I'm facing, I'm getting ready to jump into the OOP pool. I realize that to alieviate some of the time constraints I have, I need to have a more extensive object library. Less coding equals more free time (or more projects one or the other). I'm hoping that some of you may be able to help me with this. I've started a new category here for OOP and hope that all of you will assist me (and hopefully others) in my quest to become Object Oriented. I would like to see it become a tutorial of sorts on OOP. After all, you never know when you may have to maintain my code someday.
My first issue is I need to get into the OOP mindset. I need to get in my head when it's appropriate to write code to do some task inline in the page, and when I should be creating an object to handle this. Please post your suggestions and tips.