Directions given to a computer.

People who write programms

Successful programmers are analytical thinkers. They are able to approach a problem in many differnt ways adn identify the strengths adn weaknesses of each approach. Patience, strong writing and communication skills, and the ability to work well in a team.

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Mnemonics, abreviations for instructions, (MUL a1, ax), ADD

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Line by line converts high-level code to machine code

translates entire program into machine code before running

Concentrates on major tasks

Focused on the objects used to acomplish its goal

Top-Down used to plan procedure-oriented programs

OOD used to plan OOP

can be seen or touched

can contain attributs & methods

A watch (Object) has several attributes, such as crown, dial, hour hand, minute hand, and movement

Also called properties

A watch(Object) keeps track of time

blueprint used to create an object

contains

Kevin is an instance of Person

Hide the complex details to the users of the object

Only allow the user access to what they need

Create one class from another

inherites from base class

attributes and methods shared by it's "children"

same instruction to be carried out differently depending on the object

A dog makeNoise( ) would bark, while a cow makeNoise( ) would moo