{"id":47247,"date":"2024-05-09T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47247"},"modified":"2024-05-09T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:12:17","slug":"object-oriented-programming-what-does-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/object-oriented-programming-what-does-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Object-oriented programming: what does &#8220;.&#8221; do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring coding, operators come up. The tutor mentions the dot.<\/h2>\n<p>\nFrom a top-down point of view, the .  (aka, dot) operator sets the context wherein you want to refer. Therefore,<p>\nobj0.helloWorld();\n<\/p>\n<p>\nmeans &#8220;I want to execute the method helloWord() that is part of the obj0 object.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Object-oriented languages such as Java and Python use dot notation in this way.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/builtin.com\/data-science\/dot-notation\">builtin.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring coding, operators come up. The tutor mentions the dot. From a top-down point of view, the . (aka, dot) operator sets the context wherein you want to refer. Therefore, obj0.helloWorld(); means &#8220;I want to execute the method helloWord() that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/object-oriented-programming-what-does-do\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Object-oriented programming: what does &#8220;.&#8221; do?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3142],"tags":[3144,761,3143,515,930],"class_list":["post-47247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-dot-operator","tag-java","tag-object-oriented-programming-2","tag-oop","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47252,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47247\/revisions\/47252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}