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Objects are the real and conceptual things we find in the world around us. An object may be hardware, software, a concept (e.g., velocity), or even "… - Edward V. Berard
" "Objects are the real and conceptual things we find in the world around us. An object may be hardware, software, a concept (e.g., velocity), or even "flesh and blood." Objects are complete entities, i.e., they are not "simply information" or "simply information and actions." Software objects strive to capture as completely as possible the characteristics of the "real world" objects which they represent. Finally, objects are "black boxes," i.e., their internal implementations are hidden from the outside world, and all interactions with an object take place via a well-defined interface.
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About Edward V. Berard
Edward V. Berard (born ca 1950) is an American software engineer and consultant for The Object Agency, Inc.
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Work on what was to become “structured design” began in the early 1960s. Structured design, as a well-defined and named concept, did not achieve appreciable visibility until the publication of an article in the IBM Systems Journal in 1974 (Stevens et al., 1974). There is more than one way to accomplish a “structured design.”
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