Classes

[ageorgou]

Motivation

• Organising code, grouping together relevant functionality
• "Encapsulation": having data and its behaviour/logic together
  • example: simulation class, all parameters together rather than reading from global state
• Abstraction: Hide the implementation details so other parts of the code don't need to change
• Possibly have two examples showing different benefits (Could be Person class from Loveleen's lecture)

Syntax

• Use one of the examples above.
• Start by showing usage (constructing and accessing attributes).
• Show syntax: class keyword, constructor
• Show syntax and usage: methods

Homework

Show an example of a run_simulation function. Create a class that collects the simulation parameters and has a run() method.