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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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 ...

Not only are generics/templates better for type safety, they are much faster than casting back and fourth. Or as they call it in .NET land boxing and unboxing.

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 ...

Object-oriented programming is finally starting to look promising. For anyone who’s been following this technology, a statement like that is enough to evoke loud groans. Object-oriented programming, a ...