Introduction to OOP: Chapter 1: Thinking Object-Oriented:
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Computing as Simulation
- The OOP view of computation is similar to creating a universe of interacting computing objects
- Similar to the way in which a committee or club might be organized
- Also very similar to a style of simulation called discrete event-driven simulation
- Easily under estimated advantage of this view -- power of metaphor.
Intro OOP, Chapter 1, Slide 28