Summary

In this chapter, we took a whirlwind tour through the terminology of the object-oriented paradigm, focusing on object-oriented design. We learned how to separate different objects into a taxonomy of different classes and to describe the attributes and behaviors of those objects via the class interface. In particular, we covered:

• Classes and objects
• Abstraction, encapsulation, and information hiding
• Designing a public interface
• Object relations: association, composition, and inheritance
• Basic UML syntax for fun and communication

In the next chapter, we'll explore how to implement classes and methods in Python.