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The Power of Abstraction

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  • Presented by Barbara Liskov, Professor at MIT

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Barbara Liskov discusses the evolution of data abstraction and its role in software design and programming languages.

Barbara Liskov, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, MA This lecture has been videocast from the Computer Science Department at Duke. The abstract of this lecture and a brief speaker biography is available at: research.csc.ncsu.edu/colloquia/seminar-post.php?id=308

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What people say. Recommended for understanding the evolution of object-oriented programming and abstract types.

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On “Why I Don't Teach SOLID”

…in "SOLID") discussing the evolution of the paradigm. If you haven't watched it already, I recommend it. If it doesn't change your mind, it may at least illuminate the problems and situations for which OOP (by which I mean abstract types and programming to a contract) were (and still are) considered appropriate solutions. You can watch it here: link to this video IMO, the blog author who's stopped teaching these things is doing his students a disservice because, while it's true that it's not always the solution, it's not true that it's never a solution and not worth knowing.…
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