Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

Using dot notation enhances run-time performance if you declare the object used in the dot notation as an instance of a predefined class instead of declaring it as a generic object. The object's class ...

While most students pick up algorithmic approaches to programming fairly easily, many struggle to get their heads around the idea of object-orientation.

C# Corner Choose Between Methods and Properties Language features aren't good or bad. The choice of language feature depends on what you're doing. In this issue, we dive into the methods vs.

I'd like to pass to a method an object, and a REFERENCE (handle?) to one of its properties, so it can refer to the value and operate on it. (For specific reasons, I CANNOT pass the actual value ...

Functional programming supports well-defined, defensible software giving reproducible results. Object-oriented programming is the mechanism par excellence for managing complexity while keeping things ...

Is it poor programming practice to pass parameters as objects? Are you making code more maintainable? Or just covering up poorly defined methods?

The conceptual shift during analysis and design is considered architectural, whereas for programming it is deemed merely incremental. The managerial implications of these findings are discussed and ...

Here's how to make classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects work together in your Java programs.