CHAPTER 6 - Classification, Generalization and Specialization

Code Organization, Code Reusability, Abstraction, Scalability

4 reasons to understand the importance of classification, generalization, and specialization

classification, generalization, specialization

Code Organization, Code Reusability, Abstraction, Scalability are 4 reasons to understand the importance of what 3 oop characteristics?

Classification

is the process of grouping together objects based on common characteristics. In Java, this is achieved through the use of classes and interfaces.

Class

_____ is a blueprint for creating objects, while an interface is a collection of abstract methods that define a set of behaviors. They can be used to classify objects based on their attributes

Interface

is a collection of abstract methods and constants that can be implemented by a class. An _________ defines a set of methods that a class implementing that interface must provide. The methods in it do not have any implementation, but only the method signatures are defined.

Hierarchical

____________ relationship of classes is created using inheritance. A child class can inherit properties and methods from a parent class, and can also add its own properties and methods. This creates a hierarchy of classes, where each child class can inherit from its parent class, and can also be inherited by other child classes.

Generalization

is the process of creating a more general class from a more specific class. This allows you to create a hierarchy of classes that share common properties and behavior.

Specialization

is the opposite of generalization, and it involves creating a more specific class from a more general class. This allows you to add additional properties and behavior to a more specific class without affecting the more general class.

Specialization

is the act of capturing differences among objects in a class and creating new distinct subclasses with the differences. In this way, we are specializing information about objects of the superclass into subclasses.

Classification

categorizing objects into a class. A subclass is a specialized class of a superclass, and a superclass is a generalized class of a subclass.

Generalization

the act of capturing similarities between classes and defining the similarities in a new generalized class: the classes then become subclasses of the generalized class.

Specialization

the act of capturing differences among objects in a class and creating new distinct subclasses with the differences