I ain't a guru in programming. I started programming about a year ago as per computer science student. so far in school we have treated languages like Vb.net, and C but in each of these languages we didn't really go too deep. for the vb.net I think we stopped at conditional statements or so but for the C we did some basic aspect like functions, arrays and little of pointers, we briskly treated stack and heap but didn't go any further than just the explanation.
Now this semester we are doing python which is an object oriented programming language and the whole concept of object, class, inheritance and polymorphism is really looking so strange and confusing....
please I really need any sort of help you can offer to me I really like programming but this is starting to confuse me...our programming classes right from year 1 is nothing to right home about we learn majority of if ourselves I tried reading through the recommended text but I still don't grab it

Google,youtube,podcast should be your best friend as a programmer:
for a better understanding of OOP in python: check out these source:https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/object-oriented-programming

If you can answer this question. Why do we have object programming when we have function in procedural languages?. That will open a whole lot of windows to understanding the reason for object oriented programming. If you need more help, feel free to ask.

Ajibade123:
I ain't a guru in programming. I started programming about a year ago as per computer science student. so far in school we have treated languages like Vb.net, and C but in each of these languages we didn't really go too deep. for the vb.net I think we stopped at conditional statements or so but for the C we did some basic aspect like functions, arrays and little of pointers, we briskly treated stack and heap but didn't go any further than just the explanation.
Now this semester we are doing python which is an object oriented programming language and the whole concept of object, class, inheritance and polymorphism is really looking so strange and confusing....
please I really need any sort of help you can offer to me I really like programming but this is starting to confuse me...our programming classes right from year 1 is nothing to right home about we learn majority of if ourselves I tried reading through the recommended text but I still don't grab it

you attend which school ??

shegzhkn:


you attend which school ??

Same question I was about to ask.
Maybe a private school.

OOP is easier than procedural methods.

I was more confused than you when I started learning OOP but then I discovered it was the method of teaching that made it look complicated.

The only way you can understand the topic is by working on a real life application.

Cakephp:

Same question I was about to ask.
Maybe a private school.

OOP is easier than procedural methods.

I was more confused than you when I started learning OOP but then I discovered it was the method of teaching that made it look complicated.

The only way you can understand the topic is by working on a real life application.

You nailed it boss.

Let me give you a little scenario that might help you. Let us say in order to cook soup, you require 2 steps:

First Step - You grind pepper using the blender.
Second Step - You pour the pepper into the pot.

In order to write this in code, you can either go procedural way or OOP way.

For the procedural way, you can write TWO separate functions (let's call the function name - GrindPepper() ) to grind pepper and then write another function (let's call the function CookPepper() ) for cooking the pepper inside the pot. Yes the code will work as you planned.

Another way is to see everything as an Object. You can treat the blender as an object and the Pot as an Object. How? you ask me. Well by developing code for the blender and the pot. See sample code like this:

class Cooking {

public void Blender(var Items)
{
//this code contains how u intend to blend
}

public void Pot(var Items)
{
//this code contains how to cook
}

}

Now the thing is this code will achieve the same result as the code for the procedural BUT the difference is massive. For the procedural way, if you need to blend any other object, let us say okro, you will need a brand new code which you will have to rewrite to handle it. The same thing if you want to cook any other thing, let us say Rice. The code in the procedural function is tied to "grinding pepper" and "cooking pepper".

With the OOP way, the blender can blend ANYTHING (just pass the object into the method) and the pot can cook anything (just pass the item you want to cook into the pot). So the OOP make the code to be REUSABLE and FLEXIBLE.

In real life scenario, when you are confronted with a scenario, you need to know how to identify OBJECTS and how to identify METHODS and how OBJECT interracts with another OBJECT (Class Diagram). That is another scenario entirely.

I hope this gives you the head up you require in your journey into programming.

shegzhkn:

you attend which school ??

University of Lagos

Nearbyproperty:
Google,youtube,podcast should be your best friend as a programmer:
for a better understanding of OOP in python: check out these source:https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/object-oriented-programming

thanks a lot I will check it out

MT:
If you can answer this question. Why do we have object programming when we have function in procedural languages?. That will open a whole lot of windows to understanding the reason for object oriented programming. If you need more help, feel free to ask.

I don't understand

Cakephp:

Same question I was about to ask.
Maybe a private school.

OOP is easier than procedural methods.

I was more confused than you when I started learning OOP but then I discovered it was the method of teaching that made it look complicated.

The only way you can understand the topic is by working on a real life application.

how can I get to really like it bro... about the teaching method don't let us even go into that one

MT:
Let me give you a little scenario that might help you. Let us say in order to cook soup, you require 2 steps:

First Step - You grind pepper using the blender.
Second Step - You pour the pepper into the pot.

In order to write this in code, you can either go procedural way or OOP way.

For the procedural way, you can write TWO separate functions (let's call the function name - GrindPepper() ) to grind pepper and then write another function (let's call the function CookPepper() ) for cooking the pepper inside the pot. Yes the code will work as you planned.

Another way is to see everything as an Object. You can treat the blender as an object and the Pot as an Object. How? you ask me. Well by developing code for the blender and the pot. See sample code like this:

class Cooking {

public void Blender(var Items)
{
//this code contains how u intend to blend
}

public void Pot(var Items)
{
//this code contains how to cook
}

}

Now the thing is this code will achieve the same result as the code for the procedural BUT the difference is massive. For the procedural way, if you need to blend any other object, let us say okro, you will need a brand new code which you will have to rewrite to handle it. The same thing if you want to cook any other thing, let us say Rice. The code in the procedural function is tied to "grinding pepper" and "cooking pepper".

With the OOP way, the blender can blend ANYTHING (just pass the object into the method) and the pot can cook anything (just pass the item you want to cook into the pot). So the OOP make the code to be REUSABLE and FLEXIBLE.

In real life scenario, when you are confronted with a scenario, you need to know how to identify OBJECTS and how to identify METHODS and how OBJECT interracts with another OBJECT (Class Diagram). That is another scenario entirely.

I hope this gives you the head up you require in your journey into programming.

wow you are a bomb

MT:
Let me give you a little scenario that might help you. Let us say in order to cook soup, you require 2 steps:

First Step - You grind pepper using the blender.
Second Step - You pour the pepper into the pot.

In order to write this in code, you can either go procedural way or OOP way.

For the procedural way, you can write TWO separate functions (let's call the function name - GrindPepper() ) to grind pepper and then write another function (let's call the function CookPepper() ) for cooking the pepper inside the pot. Yes the code will work as you planned.

Another way is to see everything as an Object. You can treat the blender as an object and the Pot as an Object. How? you ask me. Well by developing code for the blender and the pot. See sample code like this:

class Cooking {

public void Blender(var Items)
{
//this code contains how u intend to blend
}

public void Pot(var Items)
{
//this code contains how to cook
}

}

Now the thing is this code will achieve the same result as the code for the procedural BUT the difference is massive. For the procedural way, if you need to blend any other object, let us say okro, you will need a brand new code which you will have to rewrite to handle it. The same thing if you want to cook any other thing, let us say Rice. The code in the procedural function is tied to "grinding pepper" and "cooking pepper".

With the OOP way, the blender can blend ANYTHING (just pass the object into the method) and the pot can cook anything (just pass the item you want to cook into the pot). So the OOP make the code to be REUSABLE and FLEXIBLE.

In real life scenario, when you are confronted with a scenario, you need to know how to identify OBJECTS and how to identify METHODS and how OBJECT interracts with another OBJECT (Class Diagram). That is another scenario entirely.

I hope this gives you the head up you require in your journey into programming.

I believe this poster did justuce to the question, but could learn more from YouTube, w3schools.com etc
You can as well follow this link https://beginnersbook.com/2018/03/python-tutorial-learn-programming/
for a detailed python oop tutorial

Ajibade123:

University of Lagos

CS major right ??

OOP is straight forward and can be fun, you just need the right approach ... OK

When it comes to programming, always get the understanding (the why) before the implementation (the how). Tutorial most times will expose you to the implementation and most times when you are confronted with a real life task, you won't be able to successfully apply the supposedly gained knowledge. It takes a bit of research to understand the whys of any technologies. ICT is deep and steep but doable.

Lol OOP in python is shït if you wanna understand OOP try Java or Ada programming language, then you can come back to learning it in python which would still confuse you! Therefore my first statement up there. Good luck.

Deicide:
Lol OOP in python is shït if you wanna understand OOP try Java or Ada programming language, then you can come back to learning it in python which would still confuse you! Therefore my first statement up there. Good luck.

I think you are wrong. OOP is a practice and can be applied to any programming language. The implementation can be different in every programming language but the objective is still the same. What I have observed is many people focus on programming languages here. You shouldn't. When you understand WHY you are using certain architectural design, you can pick any programming language and work with it. A good programmer doesn't focus on type of programming language, they just understand the principle and any programming language will become easy to use. I laugh when I see people talking about java vs c# etc, it's unnecessary. Languages are just mere tools to implement the solution to the problems you are confronted with. Always have a simplistic view to solve problem, then you will realise programming is not as complex as you think.

I like that MT's analogy of soup making algorithm in OOP and procedural approach.

OOP is real-world centric. It breaks things down into how they are in real world and makes life better and simpler for programmers.

If u create a blender object in OOP, u can then create a different blend() methods to handle different combination of ingredients or create on blend() methods parameters that can help differentiate how to handle different soup ingredients.

if the is blend(Duration blendtime) function, you could call that method on pepper with a blendtime higher than that of okro because okro generally needs less time to blend.

WebMind:
I like that MT's analogy of soup making algorithm in OOP and procedural approach.

OOP is real-world centric. It breaks things down into how they are in real world and makes life better and simpler for programmers.

If u create a blender object in OOP, u can then create a different blend() methods to handle different combination of ingredients or create on blend() methods parameters that can help differentiate how to handle different soup ingredients.

if the is blend(Duration blendtime) function, you could call that method on pepper with a blendtime higher than that of okro because okro generally needs less time to blend.

Nice if I was to implement that, I won't create different methods inside the class as the class will be unnecessarily bloated and still wont cover everything we need to blend inside the blend method. I will rather create an interface or abstract class and make the concrete class inherits it and overrides the blend method in the abstract class or implement the interface. This way your blend method can execute as you wish and you would have achieved "loose coupling" which is good for unit testing. Let's keep sharing idea. Smiles.

MT:
When it comes to programming, always get the understanding (the why) before the implementation (the how). Tutorial most times will expose you to the implementation and most times when you are confronted with a real life task, you won't be able to successfully apply the supposedly gained knowledge. It takes a bit of research to understand the whys of any technologies. ICT is deep and steep but doable.

Please how do one get d why help with example please?

You can take a beginner step by following basic lessons of OOPs. After that, you can take it forward and can get expertise in it.

As with any other programming idea, the best thing to do after learning any syntax is to practise the concept exercises and enhance your skills. The same is true for Python's object-oriented programming.

Here are some useful websites for learning OOPs ideas in Python with programmatic examples:

1.https://pynative.com/python-object-oriented-programming-oop-exercise/

2. https://www.techgeekbuzz.com/blog/python-object-oriented-programming-exercise/

3.https://gist.github.com/KirosG/f265f136bd97bd669632fa0f2f2721b4

I hope these materials will assist you in practising and comprehending the concept.