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Object-Oriented Programming
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ALSO CALLED: Object-Oriented Design and OOP
DEFINITION: In object-oriented programming, polymorphism (from the Greek meaning "having multiple forms") is the characteristic of being able to assign a different meaning or usage to something in different contexts - specifically, to allow an entity such as a variable, a function,
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TSSJS 2008 Keynote: Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages
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In this Videocast, filmed at The ServerSide Java Symposium 2008 in Las Vegas, Java expert Ted Neward gives the conference keynote "Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages" discussing the current and future state of programming languages.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 16 Jul 2008
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20 Years of LABVIEW Innovation
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Learn the trends and evolution of an intuitive graphical programming language designed to remove time consuming programming tasks. Develop applications more efficiently and achieve reliable, real-time performance on multi-core processors.
Posted: 07 Apr 2008 | Premiered: 07 Apr 2008
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Modernizing C++ Applications
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Discover how to successfully leverage existing C++ applications, allowing your organization to easily migrate to a loosely-coupled infrastructure.
Posted: 20 Feb 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING DEFINITION (continued):
or an object to have more than one form. There are several different kinds of polymorphism. 1) A variable with a given name may be allowed to have different forms and the program can determine which form of the variable to use at the time of execution. For example, a variable named USERID may be capable of being either an integer (whole number) or a string of characters (perhaps because the programmer wants to allow a user to enter a user ID as either an employee number - an integer
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