[FIXED] What does 'low in coupling and high in cohesion' mean

Issue

I have problems understanding the statement low in coupling and high in cohesion. I have googled and read a lot about this, but still finding it hard to understand.

To what I understand is High cohesion means, that we should have classes that are specialized to perform a particular function. Hope this is correct? Like a credit card validation class, which is specialized to validate credit cards only.

And still don't understand what low Coupling means?

Solution

What I believe is this:

Cohesion refers to the degree to which the elements of a module/class belong together, it is suggested that the related code should be close to each other, so we should strive for high cohesion and bind all related code together as close as possible. It has to do with the elements within the module/class.

Coupling refers to the degree to which the different modules/classes depend on each other, it is suggested that all modules should be independent as far as possible, that's why low coupling. It has to do with the elements among different modules/classes.

To visualize the whole picture will be helpful:

The screenshot was taken from Coursera.

Answered By - vishal_aim

Answer Checked By - Marilyn (PHPFixing Volunteer)