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

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 ...

For example, a car in object-oriented programming would have in its capsule its fuel level, whether the engine is switched on, etc. This allows it to react to manipulations of the code. This allows ...

Object-oriented techniques are not the magic “silver bullets” of programming. In the programming world, the term silver bullet refers to a technology or methodology that is touted as the ...

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 ...

This is still true with lots of embedded systems today. OO languages tend to add a bit more overhead (RAM usage, execution speed), so a lot of embedded programming is done in assembly or C.