Chapter 12

__________________ programming is a way of designing and coding applications such that interchangeable software components can be used to build larger programs.

The portion of the class that is visible to the application programmer is the :

___________ describe the properties that all objects in the same class have in common.

A variable declared inside a class declaration is called a ___________ variable.

A function that defines a class property is known as a ______________.

A sub procedure or a function that is member of a class is called a ___________.

A _________ is a method named New that is automatically called each time an instance of a class is created.

i. A collection is similar to an array in that they are both single units that contain multiple items in which individual items are designated by an index.

ii. The index subscript begins at 0 for both a collection and an array.

iii. In a collection, the individual items do not have to be the same datatype.

iv. Collections automatically expand or contract as items are added or removed from the collection.

The __________ property holds the number of items stored in a collection.

_____________ allows you to create new classes that derive characteristics from existing classes.