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Polymorphism
Polymorphism is a big word for an important technique in object-oriented programming to help make code extendable. Rather than expressing business rules as conditional statements in code, we move them into factories and use them to instantiate objects that do the actions we want to take. We need to know different things when we create …
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Read MoreNot Like Civil Engineering
Many people who do not write code think that software engineering is akin to civil engineering but is this an accurate metaphor? Software is built in virtual space and the rules of virtual space are different than the rules of physical space. In civil engineering the waterfall method works well; they plan, do and then …
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