Questions tagged [class]
A template for declaring a type of object.
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Calendar modeling in class diagram
I am creating a cinema website focused on client services, where clients can reserve tickets for movies and browse the cinema's schedule (both daily and weekly). The schedules will be managed by an ...
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What is a component in C#?
Introduction Components are an important building block of software. In terms of software architecture, there are a lot of principles regarding components that should be adhered to (high cohesion, low ...
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Defining functions inside vs outside a class
Say I have a class with a function do_thing that is comprised of multiple steps, which themselves segregate into functions (first_process and second_process). At what point would this be considered ...
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In Python when is absolutely preferable to use a class instead of a module?
Python is the language I use most in this period. My background in Java Before start learning Python I have programmed in Java language. In Java all code is written inside the methods of a class and ...
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Comparing Java objects with different member variables
I have a base class "People" which two other classes inherit from: Employee and Student. The Student class includes a GPA (type double) and the Employee class does not. I have an ArrayList ...
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What is the threshold of "usage" of a parent class member that should move to child class?
For example, for base and child classes, if all child class need a class member, eg: baseHp, which represents the base hp to calculate the actual hp of monsters in a game: public class Monster{ ...
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Why do we need factories in the first place?
I went through various blogs but nowhere I can find the reason of having virtual constructors in C++. Why is virtual constructor needed and lets say if we go through the wrong way of creating virtual ...
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How to analyze and understand the use/application of a "class" in a colossal million-line legacy code base?
I am working on a huge code base (more than a million lines of code with a sophisticated architecture) written in C++ over the span of a couple of decades. The task on which I'm working at this point ...
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