Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses objects and classes to structure software programs. The core idea is to model real-world entities as objects with properties ...

Today, you probably don’t think much about object-oriented programming, it’s just part of the landscape. But decades ago, it was strange and obscure technology.

Imagine you are an expert object-oriented Java developer who meticulously crafts code the way an artist cares for their masterpiece. You believe clean code is an absolute necessity. Classes with clear ...

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.

From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...

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 ...