Basic HTML version of Foils prepared July 5 98

Foil 82 PPT Slide

From FMS: Forces Modeling and Simulation Handout JSU HPC Summer Institute for Undergraduates, Jackson MS -- June 15 1998. by Wojtek Furmanski, Subhash Nair, Tom Pulikal


Objects have properties as well as methods which in effect define the objects interface and its existence.
Properties set or return information about the state of the object such as the width of a column of cells in Excel or the background of a PowerPoint slide.
Methods perform some action on an object such as printing a Word Document
Properties can appear on either side of an equal sign. The can be set (left-hand side) or their value can be used (right-hand side)
Method can only be used on the right-hand side when their return value is being used.



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