Misconception: Students who first learn object-oriented programming in Python don’t realize they need to explicitly define instance variables in Java because this is done implicitly in Python.
- For example, in the Python code below, numSides is a data attribute (the Python equivalent of an instance variable).
- numSides does not require it’s own declaration, thus its use in
self.numSidesis sufficient for it’s existence.class Die:def setSides(self, sides):self.numSides = sides
- numSides does not require it’s own declaration, thus its use in