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

I started wondering about what object oriented programming was and I thought Erlang wasn't object oriented, it was a functional programming language. Then, my thesis supervisor said "But you're ...

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 ...

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.

Robert Harper and Dan Licata, Professors of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, announced last week that they have decided to "eliminate entirely" OOP from the CS introductory curriculum.

While most students pick up algorithmic approaches to programming fairly easily, many struggle to get their heads around the idea of object-orientation.

When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented ...

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