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Object-Oriented Programming Topics

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In this chapter we will go over the object-oriented side of Swift. Having experience with ActionScript, you are already familiar with the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm. It treats a piece of software as a system, which is broken down into objects. Each object is responsible for a part of the system and looks after its own state.

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    . . . also mildly irritating—but mostly wonderful, trust me.

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    Extensions are not a new concept that appeared with Swift. You will find the same idea in Objective-C, where it is called categories.

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© 2016 Radoslava Leseva Adams and Hristo Lesev

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Leseva Adams, R., Lesev, H. (2016). Object-Oriented Programming Topics. In: Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1666-8_21

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