In our first few articles, we introduced the three tenants of object-oriented programming: encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. We then covered software process and design patterns.

Java is the primary language used to create Android apps. Java, you may have heard, is an ‘object oriented’ programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS .

Java’s strict syntax and object-oriented structure can make it challenging for beginners.Despite its complexity, Java offers ...

There are alternatives to Java. One of the first rationales that you often hear for teaching Java is, "It's object-oriented!" It's true that Java is the poster child of object-oriented programming ...

Java’s stewards have responded by incorporating some functional programming idioms into the language. But they’ve been steadfast in that Java remains a strongly object-oriented language where ...

This course introduces students to object oriented programming with Java(TM). Basic concepts are introduced early, with a strong focus on classes. Additional topics include event driven (Windows) ...

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 .

Another topic I covered with during my interview with Sun Microsystems' Joe Hartley was "Greenfoot," a tool that Sun helped develop (providing financial and consultative support to the developers ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...