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class a domain model if you have to store or manipulate instances of it in order to implement a requirement a comment at the top describing the purpose of the class, how it should be used, its authors and its history of modification the unit of data abstraction in an object-oriented program programming language construct 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit the details of data to hold a responsibility if the responsibility cannot be attributed to any of the existing classes variables A software module that provides both procedural and data abstraction. It describes a set of similar objects, called its instances methods a programmer to cope with the complexity of data several similar objects the internals of a computer system such as 'Record', 'Table', 'Data', 'Structure', or 'Information' a list of variables, called instance variables, corresponding to data that will be present in each instance a box with the name of the class inside in a UML class diagram data associated with each object class^2

method a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious when using a certain procedure, a programmer does not need to worry about all the details of how it performs its computations; he or she only needs to know how to call it and what it computes equivalent to the terms "routine", "function" or "procedure" which are used in non object oriented languages procedure 2.4 - Methods, Operations and Polymorphism the details of procedures A concrete implementation of an operation; a procedure in a class procedural abstraction

utility a domain model if you have to store or manipulate instances of it in order to implement a requirement a comment at the top describing the purpose of the class, how it should be used, its authors and its history of modification when using a certain procedure, a programmer does not need to worry about all the details of how it performs its computations; he or she only needs to know how to call it and what it computes the unit of data abstraction in an object-oriented program method 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit the details of data to hold a responsibility if the responsibility cannot be attributed to any of the existing classes variables A method or class that has wide applicability to many different subsystems and is designed to be reusable methods a programmer to cope with the complexity of data procedural abstraction several similar objects the internals of a computer system such as 'Record', 'Table', 'Data', 'Structure', or 'Information' a list of variables, called instance variables, corresponding to data that will be present in each instance a box with the name of the class inside in a UML class diagram data associated with each object utility^2

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Subject	need in	have	have advantage	be	is a kind of	is a subtopic of	group	hide	create	has part	has definition	divide up into	help	provide	represent	name after	declare	draw as	contain	see also
class	a domain model if you have to store or manipulate instances of it in order to implement a requirement	a comment at the top describing the purpose of the class, how it should be used, its authors and its history of modification		the unit of data abstraction in an object-oriented program	programming language construct	9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design	the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit	the details of data	to hold a responsibility if the responsibility cannot be attributed to any of the existing classes	variables	A software module that provides both procedural and data abstraction. It describes a set of similar objects, called its instances	methods	a programmer to cope with the complexity of data		several similar objects	the internals of a computer system such as 'Record', 'Table', 'Data', 'Structure', or 'Information'	a list of variables, called instance variables, corresponding to data that will be present in each instance	a box with the name of the class inside in a UML class diagram	data associated with each object	class^2
method		a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious	when using a certain procedure, a programmer does not need to worry about all the details of how it performs its computations; he or she only needs to know how to call it and what it computes	equivalent to the terms "routine", "function" or "procedure" which are used in non object oriented languages	procedure	2.4 - Methods, Operations and Polymorphism		the details of procedures			A concrete implementation of an operation; a procedure in a class			procedural abstraction
utility	a domain model if you have to store or manipulate instances of it in order to implement a requirement	a comment at the top describing the purpose of the class, how it should be used, its authors and its history of modification	when using a certain procedure, a programmer does not need to worry about all the details of how it performs its computations; he or she only needs to know how to call it and what it computes	the unit of data abstraction in an object-oriented program	method	9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design	the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit	the details of data	to hold a responsibility if the responsibility cannot be attributed to any of the existing classes	variables	A method or class that has wide applicability to many different subsystems and is designed to be reusable	methods	a programmer to cope with the complexity of data	procedural abstraction	several similar objects	the internals of a computer system such as 'Record', 'Table', 'Data', 'Structure', or 'Information'	a list of variables, called instance variables, corresponding to data that will be present in each instance	a box with the name of the class inside in a UML class diagram	data associated with each object	utility^2