This book is intended to familiarise the reader with an interrelated cluster of concepts including data abstraction, abstract data types, information hiding, object-oriented design, and so forth within a specifically software engineering context. It is not intended as an exhaustive reference work in any of the subjects covered. Rather, it is intended to modify the "mind-set" of its intended readership, assumed to be undergraduates who have completed an introductory "programming methodology" course, probably based on the use of a language like Pascal. (A complementary readership is composed of practising software engineers who have imbibed some of these concepts "on the job" and who wish to see them explored and established within a coherent perspective). The motivation underlying its writing was the recognition of the difficulty that the average student (and the above average student for...
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