What does object-oriented programming actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

I started wondering about what object oriented programming was and I thought Erlang wasn't object oriented, it was a functional programming language. Then, my thesis supervisor said "But you're ...

Before Object Oriented Programming One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not.

In programming we were particularly interested in the subject of object-oriented programming (OOP). At this point, an interim conclusion may be granted: The topic of OOP has sneaked in and established ...

What does object-oriented analysis actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

Robert Harper and Dan Licata, Professors of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, announced last week that they have decided to "eliminate entirely" OOP from the CS introductory curriculum.

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

Moving procedural libraries into object-oriented frameworks Porting procedural code, such as C, to an object-oriented framework can be overwhelming to architects new to object-oriented design.

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 ...