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Amit Merchant
Amit Merchant

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Explain Inversion of Control like I'm five

I always find it difficult to understand the topic of inversion of control. Can anyone here explain it in simple terms?

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Kasey Speakman

So, based on this quote from Martin Fowler.

Inversion of Control is too generic a term, and thus people find it confusing. As a result with a lot of discussion with various IoC advocates we settled on the name Dependency Injection.

I'll refer you to this ELI5.

Explain dependency injection like I'm five

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