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 ...

Object-oriented programming gives us modifiers, which control the visibility of members and methods. In some languages, like Java, we have modifiers such as private and public.

An introduction to both automatic differentiation and object-oriented programming can enrich a numerical analysis course that typically incorporates numerical differentiation and basic MATLAB ...