One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

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A programming language that does not inherently support modules containing data and associated processing (objects). All early languages were non-object languages. For example, C is non-object, but ...

The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s ...

Because of its specificity, it is usually difficult to reuse computer code developed for a given combinatorial problem to deal with another one. We use the Object Oriented Programming methodology to ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

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 of a ...