Ruby Full Stack Development: Object-Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a fundamental part of Ruby. This course explores OOP and how classes and objects can be used to develop more sophisticated software. Topics include the following: how to describe OOP; create a class and an object; classify objects by mutability; create and use class methods; use an external class or a module. Other areas covered are inheritance polymorphism encapsulation method overriding and overloading. You will learn how to investigate classes and add access controls raise and handle exceptions. Finally as a review exercise you will create and use classes and objects in a Ruby app.