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 object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

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 ...

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data in ...

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 advantage of ...

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design is a course that presents an introduction to the design and construction of software systems using techniques that view a system as a set of objects that work ...

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Martin Buchwitz is editor of SPS Magazin in Germany. SPS Magazin has concentrated on the topic of engineering of control systems for a few months now, especially on programming. The reason for us ...

PHP 3 was released in mid-1998. Some basic object-oriented (OO) capabilities were included, more or less as an afterthought, to "provide new ways of accessing arrays." 1 No significant changes were ...