0x06-python-classes

0x06. Python - Classes and Objects

Learning objectives for this project:

-Why Python programming is awesome -What is OOP -“first-class everything”

• What is a class
• What is an object and an instance
• What is the difference between a class and an object or instance
• What is an attribute
• What are and how to use public, protected and private attributes
• What is self
• What is a method
• What is the special __init__ method and how to use it
• What is Data Abstraction, Data Encapsulation, and Information Hiding
• What is a property
• What is the difference between an attribute and a property in Python
• What is the Pythonic way to write getters and setters in Python
• How to dynamically create arbitrary new attributes for existing instances of a class
• How to bind attributes to object and classes
• What is the __dict__ of a class and/or instance of a class and what does it contain
• How does Python find the attributes of an object or class
• How to use the getattr function