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Re:Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tu... by system16 on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:27AM (#31861445)
"Car/Animal extends..." slowed my ability to comprehend OOP significantly when I was learning to code. It just did not make any sense to me and I felt like an idiot for not being able to equate these "real-world" examples to the code I was trying to write. I just could not make the connection.

It wasn't until I started trying to make a simple video game that these concepts made sense: an "Enemy" class could have properties of health and speed that a "Boss" or "Minion" could inherit from, etc.

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Re:Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tu... by redisman on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:17PM (#31865993)
Even in games composition is much better and what pretty much every engine forces you to use these days. It’s a lot more flexible too as you can compose a new boss out of ten different components rather than having to refactor a crazy tree of nonsense
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