Procedural Versus OO Programming
Before we delve deeper into the advantages of OO development, let’s consider a more fundamental question: What exactly is an object? This is both a complex and a simple question. It is complex because learning any method of software development is not trivial. It is simple because people already think in terms of objects.
For example, when you look at a person, you see the person as an object. And an object is defined by two components: attributes and behaviors. A person has attributes, such as eye color, age, height, and so on. A person also has behaviors, such as walking, talking, breathing, and so on. In its basic definition, an object is an entity that contains both data and behavior.
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