Cohesion and Coupling
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>> Let's talk about a couple of
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additional aspects in object-oriented programming.
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Let's talk about cohesion and coupling.
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Of course, we're going to define
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what cohesion is, what coupling is.
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We're going to talk about
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the relationship they have with each other.
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They have almost an inverse relationship
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>> with each other.
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>> Let's start with cohesion.
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Right off the bat, I'm going to tell you
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high cohesion is desirable.
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You can remember that
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>> because they both have h's in them, so high cohesion.
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>> Remember that.
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>> That's what you want, high cohesion.
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>> But what is cohesion?
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Cohesion is singleness of purpose.
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For instance, if you are one of those rare people
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>> that can walk into a grocery store
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>> to get a gallon of milk,
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>> and you can come out with just a gallon of milk,
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>> you are cohesive.
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>> I'm not cohesive.
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I won't wind up being the person in line
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>> with 32 items all balanced in my hands,
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>> always dropping something.
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>> Because as soon as I walk into the grocery store,
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I remember 13,000 other things I need.
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I'm not cohesive at all.
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But if you're cohesive,
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walk into the grocery store,
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buy what you came there to get, and leave.
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If I hear cans of vegetables
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>> being knocked off the shelf
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>> in the canned vegetable aisle,
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>> I know that's not you
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>> because you weren't in the canned vegetable aisle.
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>> You weren't over there
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interfering with things you had no business in,
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you did what you did,
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what you came to do, and you left.
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You weren't the person
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>> that knocked all the ice cream out of the freezer
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>> because you weren't in the freezer aisle.
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>> If we take that and we apply it to an application,
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we have specific modules of code
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>> in object-oriented programming.
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>> Does this module of code keep to itself?
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Is it focused and cohesive?
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It's not flailing about
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interfering with other modules of code.
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For instance, if I were to install a module of code
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>> and something else broke or stopped working,
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>> that's not a cohesive module of code.
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My module of code would have low cohesion
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>> if installing it
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>> caused other elements not to work properly.
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>> But if I have a tightly bound
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>> well-written module of code
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>> that just performs a specific function,
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>> then I'm much less likely to interfere
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>> with other modules
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>> operating and performing other things.
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>> Then we have coupling.
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We want loose coupling.
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As you can see, the l's go together.
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L in loose, l in coupling.
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That's what's desirable.
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Coupling is the interdependency.
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Interdependency is not a bad thing.
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As matter of fact, dependency is good to a degree.
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For instance, if you were in high school
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>> and your best friend broke up
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>> with their boyfriend or girlfriend
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>> and they come to sit on your couch eating ice cream
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>> going, "My life is horrible, they left me."
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>> That person is too highly coupled.
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Coupling is fine.
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Nothing wrong with coupling.
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But when you're so coupled
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>> that one other module will break your module,
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>> that is high coupling or tight coupling,
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>> and that's not desirable.
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>> With an application, if you think about
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>> when you go to install things in Windows,
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>> maybe in Windows Server,
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you might want to go install certificates services.
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What it's going to tell you is,
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in order to install certificate services,
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you have to install
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Microsoft's Internet Information Server.
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The reason for that is IIS has modules of code
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>> that are coupled with other applications.
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>> That's good because you don't want to have
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>> to keep creating the same module of code
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>> and installing it over and over,
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>> certificate services can use
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the module of code that's in IIS, so that's good.
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Now the problem might be if you go to shut down IIS,
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if so many other applications are tightly coupled,
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>> that when you shut down IIS,
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>> it'll also shut down certificate services,
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it will shut down certain database applications
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>> that you might be running.
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>> It will shut down just various elements.
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When things are tightly coupled,
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they're too dependent on other applications.
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It's not that coupling is bad,
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it's that we want loose coupling.
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Here's just a little chart that reminds you
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>> what's good about cohesion,
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>> what's bad about it,
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what's good about coupling, and what's negative.
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This is usually worth a question,
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cohesion and coupling.
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You want high cohesion, loose coupling.
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