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Re: OOP, I thought I knew, but I didn't. Do you (Score:1)
I'm not sure patterns are very useful when being totally new to OO. It's just too much to grasp the fundamentals, and the same time fully understand abstract object and class relationships on an even higher level. Understanding data vs behaviour-centric thinking, decoupling, modularity, information hiding, etc, etc is probably more important and fundamental than patterns.
But it sure is useful once you get the basics down.
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