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R. CieslaProgramming Basicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7286-2_4

4. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

Robert Ciesla1  
(1)
HELSINKI, Finland
 

This chapter is all about object-oriented programming in detail. This monumental paradigm changed the world of programming and has since become somewhat of a de facto approach in software design. We’ll next go through many of the concepts crucial to the object-oriented paradigm. During this chapter, we’ll present concepts related to OOP mostly using the Java language for clarity, not completely forsaking C# and Python, of course.

Procedural vs. Object-Oriented Paradigms

As mentioned in Chapter 2, there are currently ...

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