The Idea Behind Object Oriented Programming. It’s perhaps best to think of OOP as a design philosophy. With procedural languages there was no connection, no relationship between the data being ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the ...

Since the introduction of object-oriented programming languages and three-tier architectures, enterprise application designers have tried to hide the relational database structure deep in the ...