Code Complete, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6. Working Classes

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Contents

• Class Foundations: Abstract Data Types (ADTs)

• Good Class Interfaces

• Design and Implementation Issues

• Reasons to Create a Class

• Language-Specific Issues

• Beyond Classes: Packages

Related Topics

• Design in construction: Chapter 5

• Software architecture: Architecture Prerequisite

• High-quality routines: Chapter 7

• The Pseudocode Programming Process: Chapter 9

• Refactoring: Chapter 24

In the dawn of computing, programmers thought about programming in terms of statements. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, programmers began thinking about programs in terms of routines. In the twenty-first century, programmers think about programming in terms of classes.

A class is a collection of data and routines that share a cohesive, well-defined ...