1. Introduction to Object-Oriented Concepts

Although many programmers don’t realize it, object-oriented (OO) software development has been around since the early 1960s. It wasn’t until the mid to late 1990s that the object-oriented paradigm started to gain momentum, despite the fact that popular object-oriented programming languages such as Smalltalk and C++ were already widely used.

The rise of OO methodologies coincides with the emergence of the Internet as a business and entertainment platform. In short, objects work well over a network. And after it became obvious that the Internet was here to stay, object-oriented technologies were already well positioned to develop the new web-based technologies.

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