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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?

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 ...

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".

You might code out of passion, but it's also an incredibly valuable skill—not just for landing a job, but for creating and selling applications. Consider the typical way people earn money: they find a ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

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 ...