A reference, like a pointer, is an object that you can use to refer indirectly to another object. A reference declaration has essentially the same syntactic structure as a pointer declaration. The ...

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. As usual in ...

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 ...

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 principles. The C language is a structured (non object-oriented) language by nature. The C language is well suited for many tasks. However, when used in an object-oriented fashion, it ...

Many programming languages allow passing objects by reference or by value. In Java, we can only pass object parameters by value. This imposes limits and also raises questions.