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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.

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.

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".

This third edition of Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming fully explains classes, data encapsulation, and exceptions for developing well-designed software. Temporarily free to download!

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 ...

Marina Lepp, associate professor of informatics at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, together with co-author Joosep Kaimre, a recently graduated master's student, examined in a ...

Object-oriented programming The goal of any programming paradigm is to manage complexity. But complexity comes in many forms, and not all paradigms handle all forms of complexity equally well.