Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm using "objects" – data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions
computer science
Description
Goals
After
completing this module, you will be able to do the following:
- Concepts of Object Oriented Techniques
- Objects and Object Classes
- Inheritance
- Memory Organization and Method Calls
- Constructors
Overview
Object-oriented
programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm using "objects" – data
structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their
interactions – to design applications and computer programs. Programming
techniques may include features such as data abstraction,
encapsulation,messaging, modularity, polymorphism, and inheritance. As hardware
and software became increasingly complex, manageability often became a concern.
Researchers developed object-oriented programming in part to address common
problems by strongly emphasizing discrete, reusable units of programming logic.
The technology focuses on data rather than processes, with programs composed of
self-sufficient modules ("classes"), each instance of
which("objects") contains all the information needed to manipulate
its own data structure ("members"). This is in contrast to the
existing modular programming that had been dominant for many years that focused
on the function of a module, rather than specifically the data, but equally
provided for code reuse, and self-sufficient reusable units of programming
logic,enabling collaboration through the use of linked modules (subroutines).
