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Chapter 14 Keywords
Key words and terms from Chapter 14
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Method
Definition
An action that an object can perform
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C, COLBOL, and Pascal are examples of what?
Definition
Common programming languages
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Encapsulation
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The combining of process and data into a single entity.
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Information Hiding
Definition
The process of only showing a user the information that they need or require
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Superclass
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A common set of attributes and methods
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Inheritance
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The idea that classes pass on their attributes to inferior classes
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A-Kind-Of(AKO)
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An instance of a certain class
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Concrete Class
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Any class that has an instance of it somewhere
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Abstract Class
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Classes that do not have specific instances elsewhere, but are generally used as a template for something else.
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polymorphism
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means the same message can be interpreted differently by different classes of objects
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dynamic (late)binding
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A technique that delays the identifying the type of object until run-time.
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Static Binding
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In this type of system, the type of object would be determined at compile time
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Object Oriented approaches are most associated with with methadology?
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iterative development RAD
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In traditional approaches to breaking down problems, the decomposition is either process-centric or...?
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Data centric
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Architecture centric
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The underlying architecture of the evolving system drives the specification, construction, and documentation of the system
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functional view
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describes the external behavior of the system from the perspective of the user
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static view
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Describes the structure of the system in terms of attributes, methods, classes, relationships, and messages
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Dynamic View
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Describes the internal behavior of the system in terms of messages passed between objects and state changes within an object-combines the process and data-modeling approaches, because the execution of a method can cause state changes in the receiving objects
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Unified Modeling Language
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Provides a common vocabularly of object-based terms and diagramming techniques to model any systems development project from analysis to design.
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Object Management Group (OMG)
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The group that manages and maintains the UML
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How many diagramming techniques were defined in UML 2.0?
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14 programming techniques
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Structure Diagrams
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used for representing the data and static relationships that are in an information system
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behavior diagrams
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Provide the analyst with a way to depict the dynamic relationship among the instances or objects that represent the business information system
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Rational Unified Process (RUP)
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defines how to apply UML through iterative, incremental development and prototyping
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