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Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

Since Java 21, wrapper classes have played an increasingly sophisticated role in Java’s type system. Here’s everything you ...

Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object-oriented programming (OOP) and procedural programming.

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 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 ...

An introduction to the principles of object-oriented programming. It covers both object-oriented programming techniques and their application to program design including classes, objects and objects ...

Do you have a single class in your Java design that does too much and knows too much? If so, you've fallen into the God object antipattern. Here's a look at how to refactor your God object and ...