Object Interaction

This simple program demonstrates object interaction. The Players shoot method invokes the monster's die method. See example below.

Virtual Pet Program (Objects)

Controlling Attribute Access With Properties

Properties allow indirect access to private attributes. See example below. The private attribute _name is allowed to be access through a property.

Class Attributes and Static Methods

The following program demonstrates the use of class attributes and static methods.

Creating and Accessing Attributes

The constructor method in this program has the attribute of name. The __str__() method creates a string representation of the object. See different ways to access attributes in the program below.

Constructor Method

A constructor is a method that is invoked automatically when a new object is created.

Creating Class, Method, and Objects

This simple program creates a class (virtual_pet), object (pet1), method (talk).