In class-based object-oriented programming, a supertype is a class that another class descends from. In OOP-speak, we say the subclass inherits from the superclass.

As you learned in my recent introduction to programming with classes and objects, you initialize an object via the code that you place in a class’s constructor.

What are classes in Java? If you’re not familiar with the concept of object-oriented programming, this is the best place to start. If you already know what a class is and just want to learn Java ...

The sample scenarios (or programs, if you will), allow students to interact with a variety of objects, modify classes, and see the results of changing methods easily through the IDE.

One of the reasons why object-oriented programming is so popular is because it delivers on these requirements. But antipatterns often appear when developers take shortcuts or focus more on the need to ...

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 ...

This paper reviews some programming techniques in R that have proved useful, particularly for substantial projects. These include several versions of object-oriented programming, used in a large ...

Concept of Object Oriented Programming – Data hiding, Data encapsulation, Class and Object, Abstract class and Concrete class, Polymorphism (Implementation of polymorphism using Function ...