In object-oriented programming, we sometimes say that when type A extends type B, that type A is-a type B. (More about this in a moment.) This example also demonstrates polymorphism, which is one ...

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 ...

Because so much of this programming style involves objects ... call into play two of the most powerful features of OOP: inheritance and polymorphism. Since all of the objects represent animals ...

object oriented programming (OOP). In the first article, we covered the basics of the class data type and the history of OOP. This article uses examples to explain how to efficiently and correctly use ...

With procedural programming, data structures refer to each other and routines are created to manipulate the data structures. As the complexity of programs increases, so does the number of routines ...

Polymorphism is a broad object-oriented term. Though we usually equate the general concept with the subtype variety, there are actually four different kinds of polymorphism. Before we examine ...

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 ...

It covers both object-oriented programming techniques and their application to program design including classes, objects and objects lifecycle, abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism ...