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Introduction to week 3

In week 3, you will learn about modules, interfaces, object-oriented programming, memory allocation and pointers.

In this week you will learn about modules. As the name suggests, modules allow you to develop modular and reusable code.

Interfaces are a nice feature that you can use to pass procedures as arguments to procedures among other things.

Dynamic memory management helps you to deal with large amounts of data efficiently by allocating and dallocating memory as required by the application.

User defined types form the basis of object-oriented programming. You can add type-bound procedures to user defined type to define methods applicable to objects of these types.

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