Object-Oriented Programming

Object-Oriented Programming

• Okay, so by the late 1980s, the software industry was beginning to get seriously bogged down by spaghettification and was looking for some real answers.

• Enter Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

• OOP was built to help manage the complexification of software through abstraction. In OOP, you build small, self-contained bits of code which correspond more closely to how you think about your program and how your program mirrors the real world.

• OOP provides abstraction through four foundation concepts:
  • Objects
  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism

• Let's look at each of these concepts...

Object-Oriented Programming Resources

• Yahoo Object Oriented Design Archives
• Object-Oriented Information Sources Archive
• Object-Orientation FAQ

Limitations of Procedural-Oriented Programming
Table of Contents
Objects