Object-oriented programming (or OOP) is an abstract concept, often hard to grasp when you’re new to programming. The “Invent with Python” blog offers an awesome analogy that makes OOP more ...

Here's what you need to know about object-oriented programming with classes, methods, objects, and interfaces, with examples in Java, Python, and TypeScript.

Object-oriented programming allows procedures about objects to be created whose exact type is not known until runtime. For example, a screen cursor may change its shape from an arrow to a line ...

However, once you’ve completed the move, you can take advantage of one of the best features of object-oriented programming—code reuse. Written by Kevin Brown, Contributor June 26, 2002 at 7:53 ...

Functional programming is a powerful paradigm. It does require developers to alter the way they think about programming. Moving from procedural or object-oriented programming requires a bit of a mind ...

To achieve a true encapsulation for concurrency, you need to go beyond a simple class and employ the so-called active class, also known as the active object design pattern. This pattern is a fusion of ...

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 ...

No significant changes were made to the object model when version 4 was released in mid-2000. The basics of object-oriented programming (OOP) were there -- you could create a class and single ...