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Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

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 ...

Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".

Porting procedural code, such as C, to an object-oriented framework can be overwhelming to architects new to object-oriented design. However, once you’ve completed the move, you can take ...

The story begins in 1979 when Bjarne was conducting research at Bell Labs, primarily using C language. C language is powerful, but Bjarne felt it was "too hardcore"; managing complexity in large ...

Moving from object-oriented to functional programming is a paradigm shift for developers, but these key principles explain why it's worth the effort.

Since the introduction of object-oriented programming languages and three-tier architectures, enterprise application designers have tried to hide the relational database structure deep in the ...