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 ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding any modern software, not just modern embedded software. As usual in ...

If you're not familiar with object-oriented programming, some of the concepts can be hard to understand, especially if you're a longtime procedural language programmer. Follow along as we take a look ...

This paper reviews some programming techniques in R that have proved useful, particularly for substantial projects. These include several versions of object-oriented programming, used in a large ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

Java’s interface language feature confuses many Java newbies. Many mistakenly assume that interfaces only sidestep Java’s failure to support multiple implementation inheritance. In reality, that ...

When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented model ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...