Super Fast Intro To Object Oriented Programming

Lightning talk given to introduce new programmers to the concept of OOP. I used pictures of baby animals to help break up the code.

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1. Super Fast Intro To Object Oriented Programming with baby animals
2. What are the “properties” of an animal?
3. class Animal(object): def __init__(self, name, species): self.name = name self.species = species def getName(self): return self.name def getSpecies(self): return self.species def __str__(self): return "%s is a %s" % (self.name, self.species)
4. What are the “properties” of a dog?
5. class Dog(Animal): def __init__(self, name, chases_cats, drools): Animal.__init__(self, name, "Dog") self.chases_cats = chases_cats self.drools = drools def chasesCats(self): return self.chases_cats def doesDrool(self): return self.drools
6. What are the “properties” of a cat?
7. class Cat(Animal): def __init__(self, name, scared_of_dogs, fat, goes_outside): Animal.__init__(self, name, "Cat") self.scared_of_dogs = scared_of_dogs self.fat = fat self.goes_outside = goes_outside def scaredOfDogs(self): return self.scared_of_dogs def isFat(self): return self.fat def goesOutside(self): return self.goes_outside
8. What does this actually mean for us?
9. Any questions?