What's so great about object-oriented design?

- A group of objects that are related to each other … is sometimes called a design pattern or an architecture. … To build these higher-level object-oriented architectures … in your own work, you need to understand … some features of Java … that you might not be yet familiar with: … Interfaces, Inheritance, and Polymorphism. … Being able to use these features … brings you to a new level as a developer. … We talk about writing and reading clean code, elegant code. … The opposite of that is smelly code, I'm not even kidding. … You can look up a code smells in a book. … So your measure of success … should be readability and usability. … It should be easy for others to understand and use, … and when that happens, you've been a complete success. … In my opinion, the skills you need … to be a great software engineer are communication skills, … along with technical skills that get all the attention. … In my years of teaching, this is the main area … that students find challenging. … …