The Idea Behind Object Oriented Programming. It’s perhaps best to think of OOP as a design philosophy. With procedural languages there was no connection, no relationship between the data being ...

In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. The idea behind object-oriented programming is that a computer program may be seen as composed ...

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 ...

However, once you’ve completed the move, you can take advantage of one of the best features of object-oriented programming—code reuse. Written by Kevin Brown, Contributor June 26, 2002 at 7:53 ...

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is sometimes portrayed as difficult and intimidating. The truth is that object-oriented programming uses a very familiar model to help make programs easier to manage.

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 ...

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 ...