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Introducing Object-Oriented Programming

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Until now we have been using Python as a structured language. Each line is executed one after the other. If we want to reuse code, we create functions. There is another way to program called object-oriented programming. In object-oriented programming we create little objects that not old hold our data but group the operations – the things we want to do with that data – with the data itself. The main features of object-oriented programming, or OOP for short, are

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Kelly, S. (2019). Introducing Object-Oriented Programming. In: Python, PyGame, and Raspberry Pi Game Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4533-0_14

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