Hard Questions, Soft Answers

Synopsis: Software systems are necessary to represent complex business interactions, and to build and maintain a system over 20 or 30 years requires robust software capable of being easily modified. Discusses the basic concept of how object software works by using analogy and an example of constructing and object-oriented program. Alan Park, who developed the object software language Smalltalk at the Xerox PARC research centre, explains how it came to be written and the influences on its design. Also explains the development of two major object languages, C++ and Java. Discusses the benefits of adopting object technology for global network computing.
Series: Computing: An Object Oriented Approach, Course M206
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1998
Availability: Off-air recording licence
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Subjects: Information technology
Keywords: computer networks; computer programming languages; computer software; computer systems; Internet; Java (computers); object-oriented technology

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