UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
     
    COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM


                presents


"Investigating the Interactions Between Inheritance, Overriding and
Overloading when Resolving Method Calls in Object-oriented Programming"


                   by

            Dr. Roger Oliver 
        (University of Hertfordshire) 


          24 April 2002 (Wednesday)

          Lecture Theatre LC108
            Hatfield Campus
                4 - 5 pm 


 Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available.


        EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND!


Abstract:


In the talk I will, briefly, review the OO mechanisms of inheritance,
overriding and overloading as exemplified by the Java programming language.
I will then report on an analysis of the way the three mechanisms interact
to complicate, or not, the task of a maintenance programmer in locating the
method that is invoked by the application of a message to an object. I will
assume two models of programmer behaviour: an OO expert and a novice
"graduating" from procedural programming, and show that predictions can be
made as to which combinations of the three mechanisms are most confusing for
the two programmer types.

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