Question

I am entry level .Net developer and using it to develop web sites. I started with classic asp and last year jumped on the ship with a short C# book.
As I developed I learned more and started to see that coming from classic asp I always used C# like scripting language.
For example in my last project I needed to encode video on the webserver and wrote a code like

public class Encoder
{
    Public static bool Encode(string videopath) {

        ...snip...

        return true;
    }
}

While searching samples related to my project I’ve seen people doing this

public class Encoder
{
    Public static Encode(string videopath) {
        EncodedVideo encoded = new EncodedVideo();

        ...snip...

        encoded.EncodedVideoPath = outputFile;
        encoded.Success = true;

        ...snip...
    }
}

public class EncodedVideo
{
    public string EncodedVideoPath { get; set; }
    public bool Success { get; set; }
}

As I understand second example is more object oriented but I don’t see the point of using EncodedVideo object.

Am I doing something wrong? Does it really necessary to use this sort of code in a web app?

Answer 1

someone once explained OO to me as a a soda can.

A Soda can is an object, an object has many properties. And many methods. For example..

SodaCan.Drink();

SodaCan.Crush();

SocaCan.PourSomeForMyHomies();

etc…

The purpose of OO Design is theoretically to write a line of code once, and have abstraction between objects.

This means that Coder.Consume(SodaCan.contents); is relative to your question.

An encoded video is not the same thing as an encoder. An encoder returns an encoded video. and encoded video may use an encoder but they are two seperate objects. because they are two different entities serving different functions, they simply work together.

Much like me consuming a soda can does not mean that I am a soda can.