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Object-oriented programming (OOP) is sometimes portrayed as difficult and intimidating. The truth is that object-oriented programming uses a very familiar model to help make programs easier to manage.

Before Object Oriented Programming One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not.

In programming we were particularly interested in the subject of object-oriented programming (OOP). At this point, an interim conclusion may be granted: The topic of OOP has sneaked in and established ...

This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding any modern software, not just modern embedded software.

Why does Java's standard class library contain empty interfaces like Cloneable and Serializable? Find out why in this sixth installment in the "Object-oriented language basics" series. You'll also ...

Object-oriented databases play nicely with object-oriented programming languages. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

This is the second part in a series of introductory articles on SystemVerilog (SV) object oriented programming (OOP). In the first article, we covered the basics of the class data type and the history ...

Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data ...