Classes and Objects

Today, we’ll take a survey of object-oriented programming to get us ready to take on Django.

Today’s topics

• Object-oriented programming
• Classes and objects

Mystery Word Project review questions

• What’s something I learned in doing this project?
• What’s something I want to understand better or know more about after doing this project?
• What was my biggest accomplishment doing this project?

🐍 Code Break

Creating classes and objects

Project

Word Frequency OO

Resources

• Real Python - Object-Oriented Programming in Python 3
• Python Docs: Classes
• A Guide to Python’s Magic Methods - great reference, but caution! This was written for Python 2, and so a few things may be different in Python 3.

Code Examples

• Code Example: a Python deck of cards