Dorian P. Yeager - Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Event-Driven Programming

Object-Oriented
Programming Languages
And
Event-Driven Programming

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Object-Oriented
Programming Languages
And
Event-Driven Programming

Dorian P. Yeager

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CONTENTS

1.1 What Is Object-Oriented Programming?

1.1.1 Data Abstraction and Information Hiding

1.1.2 Inheritance

1.1.3 Polymorphism

1.1.4 Related ConceptsOverloading and Generic Programming

1.2 Alternative Language Paradigms

1.2.1 IntroductionSome Basic Terminology

1.2.2 The Imperative Programming Paradigm

1.2.3 Procedural Programming Languages

1.2.4 Functional Programming Languages

1.2.5 Modular Programming Languages

1.2.6 Declarative Programming Languages

1.3 Relevant Programming Language Concepts

1.3.1 Abstraction

1.3.2 Syntax and Semantics

1.3.3 Target Machines

1.3.4 The Semantic Mapping, Parsing, and Syntactic Discontinuities

1.3.5 Binding Times and Translation Strategies

1.3.6 Storage Classes and Storage Management

1.3.7 Dealing with Garbage

1.3.8 Scope, Visibility, Accessibility, and Lifetime

1.3.9 Types, Type Checking, and Type Transfers

1.3.10 Uninitialized Variables and Existence Checking

1.3.11 Pointer Semantics versus Value Semantics

1.3.12 Parameter Passing Mechanisms

1.3.13 Aliasing

1.3.14 I/O and the External Environment

1.3.15 Exception Handling

1.3.16 Threading

1.4 Simula 67 and its Historical Significance

1.4.1 Generalizing the Procedure Call

1.4.2 Inheritance in Simula

1.4.3 Coroutines

1.5 Setting the Stage: Object-Oriented Terminology

1.6 Summary

2.1 Basic Definitions

2.2 The Hardware Model: Interrupts and Interrupt Handlers

2.3 Operating System Support

2.4 Callback Functions

2.5 Object-Oriented Models for EDP

2.6 An Example of an Event and its Lifetime

2.7 Programming in an Object-Oriented Windowing Environment

2.7.1 Bitmapped Graphics Displays

2.7.2 Partitioning the Display

2.7.3 Mice, Cursors, and the Focus

2.8 Two-Stage View Creation

2.9 A Warning about Code Generators

2.10 Generic Graphics Overview

2.11 Primitive Events and their Handlers

2.11.1 Mouse Events

2.11.2 Keyboard Events

2.11.3 Timer Events

2.12 Higher-Level Events

2.12.1 The Load Event

2.12.2 The Paint Event

2.12.3 Focus Gained and Focus Lost

2.12.4 The Destroy Event

2.12.5 Programmer-Defined Events

2.13 GUI Component Examples

2.13.1 Push Buttons and Menu Choices

2.13.2 Edit Boxes

2.13.3 List Boxes

2.13.4 Scroll Bars

2.14 GUIs and Threading

2.15 Summary

3.1 A Brief History of Smalltalk

3.2 Everything is an ObjectBasic Smalltalk Syntax and Semantics

3.2.1 Messages

3.2.2 Symbols

3.3 Names and Types

3.3.1 Dynamic Bindings and the Referencing Environment

3.3.2 Types

3.3.3 Type BlockContext

3.3.4 Basic Operators

3.3.5 The nil Object

3.3.6 Storage Management

3.4 Control Flow in a Smalltalk Program

3.5 The Squeak Dialect and Environment

3.5.1 Navigating Squeak

3.5.2 The Squeak Browser Window

3.6 Information Hiding in Smalltalk

3.7 Polymorphism in Smalltalk