The Laravel Podcast - Object Oriented Programming, with Alena Holligan

Object Oriented Programming, with Alena Holligan

06/09/20 • 60 min

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Most modern web applications and frameworks are built on the principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),. Laravel itself is object-oriented.

But many of us learn about OOP bit by bit as we're coding, not in any formal way.

In this episode we talk to Alena Holligan, veteran PHP programmer, OOP implementer, and educator about what exactly OOP is and how a deeper knowledge of OOP can help us.

Lorna Jane Mitchell: https://lornajane.net/
Craig Dennis - Java: https://teamtreehouse.com/craigsdennis
Lumen Learning: https://lumenlearning.com/
Some treehouse courses from Alena: https://teamtreehouse.com/alenaholligan
Late static bindings, w/r/t self and static: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.late-static-bindings.php
Headcanon: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=headcanon
Sketchings on GitHub: https://github.com/sketchings
Alena Holligan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alenaholligan

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.

Most modern web applications and frameworks are built on the principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),. Laravel itself is object-oriented.

But many of us learn about OOP bit by bit as we're coding, not in any formal way.

In this episode we talk to Alena Holligan, veteran PHP programmer, OOP implementer, and educator about what exactly OOP is and how a deeper knowledge of OOP can help us.

Lorna Jane Mitchell: https://lornajane.net/
Craig Dennis - Java: https://teamtreehouse.com/craigsdennis
Lumen Learning: https://lumenlearning.com/
Some treehouse courses from Alena: https://teamtreehouse.com/alenaholligan
Late static bindings, w/r/t self and static: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.late-static-bindings.php
Headcanon: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=headcanon
Sketchings on GitHub: https://github.com/sketchings
Alena Holligan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alenaholligan

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.

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Gemma on twitter: https://twitter.com/ellotheth
Gemma on Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@ellotheth
Gemma’s web site: https://ramblinations.com/
Gemma on YouTube: Navigate your git repository: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeABW6OU1Gg
WonderProxy: https://wonderproxy.com/
CVS: https://nongnu.org/cvs/
Subversion: https://subversion.apache.org/
Washington, DC legal code: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml
Solo TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(TV_series)
Felicity Kendal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Kendal
Effervescent: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/effervescent
The Ars Technica article where I read about it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-the-law-with-a-github-pull-request/
TortoiseSVN (https://tortoisesvn.net/) and TortoiseGit (https://tortoisegit.org/), both for Windows
Git fast forwards: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/git-fast-forwards-and-branch-management-329977726.html
Image halfway down this blog, “The Git History Is A Graph!“: https://jqassistant.org/shadows-of-the-past-analysis-of-git-repositories/
For what would be in the Git reflog on Github: https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/
Git: https://git-scm.com/
Pro Git boo: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
Learn Git Branching: https://learngitbranching.js.org/
Matt’s Git Cherry Pick article: https://mattstauffer.com/blog/how-to-merge-only-specific-commits-from-a-pull-request/
Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars trilogy: https://www.goodreads.com/series/42348-star-wars-the-thrawn-trilogy
Mara Jade Skywalker - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mara_Jade_Skywalker
Ender’s Game - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game

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