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Learn how to model a very simple football game engine and identify the design problems in it.
When OOP Becomes POO
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Many people who understand OOP well enough to use it are trying to create it too. Paul Kimmel says that's often when OOP becomes POO.
Has Visual Basic Lost Its Way?
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Paul Kimmel says the next big paradigm shift in programming will be based on .NET. Find out what he predicts VB's role will be in this coming change, and why he wonders whether Microsoft dropped the ball with VB.NET.
It Is a Matter of State
Published 06/02/2004
Learn about the State pattern, which permits an object to change its behavior dynamically by changing its internal state, creating the illusion that the object has changed.
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