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 ...

The examination of a problem by modeling it as a group of interacting objects. An object is defined by its class, data elements and behavior. For example; in an order processing system, an invoice is ...

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Celebrating 20 years, LabVIEW 8.20 takes a new approach to OOP. To mark the 20th anniversary of LabVIEW, along comes LabVIEW 8.20 replete with object-oriented support. If the original LabVIEW is C, ...

The representation of digital images as points, lines and other geometric entities. Object-oriented graphics is officially known as "vector graphics" and has nothing to do with object technology and ...

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 ...