A Level Student Booster - Object Oriented Programming (Post-event materials)

In this online session students can have expected to delve into key Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts through a series of activities that build upon one another. Here's an outline of what the session covered:

1. Understanding Classes and Objects:  Students will learn about the fundamental building blocks of OOP, including the definition and creation of classes and the instantiation of objects.
2. Implementing Encapsulation: The session will demonstrate how to encapsulate data within a class, using methods for safe data access and modification.
3. Exploring Constructors: Participants will explore how to properly initialise objects using constructors.
4. Practicing Inheritance: The concepts of superclasses and subclasses will be unpacked, showing how inheritance can be used to extend and specialise classes.
5. Applying Polymorphism: Students will learn about polymorphism with method overriding in subclasses, allowing for behaviour that varies between different types of objects.

Session Outcomes:

 Students will be able to:

• define and construct classes and objects, applying encapsulation to ensure data integrity.
• implement constructor methods to initialize objects.
• demonstrate the ability to extend classes using inheritance, recognising the benefits of reusability and hierarchy in class design.
• apply polymorphism in practice by overriding methods in subclasses to change or extend the superclass behaviour.

By the end of the session, students should have developed a clear understanding of these OOP concepts, as well as practical experience in applying them in Python, ready to tackle more advanced OOP problems and structures.

These materials are shared only with Isaac Computer Science Booster participants in accordance with the Isaac Computer Science Terms of Use policy here: https://isaaccomputerscience.org/terms?examBoard=all&stage=all