Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS .

In object-oriented programming, we sometimes describe objects as having state and behavior. These are the object’s members and methods. It’s part of the useful organization that objects give us.

One of the most critical aspects of object-oriented programming is encapsulation, which allows one to define labels for the data members and member functions, to specify if they are accessible from ...