A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

Another topic I covered with during my interview with Sun Microsystems' Joe Hartley was "Greenfoot," a tool that Sun helped develop (providing financial and consultative support to the developers) to ...

Here's what you need to know about object-oriented programming with classes, methods, objects, and interfaces, with examples in Java, Python, and TypeScript. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is ...

The legend of the Tower of Babel depicts the fact that humans lost the ability to speak a common language and began to use different dialects, making communication between them far more difficult.

GenAI may be accelerating a developmental transition in how learners conceptualize programming itself.

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Yes, it is poor practice. From the perspective of performance optimization in .NET, boxing hits performance and reflection _really_ hits performance. Like others have pointed out, if you want code ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

Anything, and I mean ANYTHING, can be abused in coding. Your prefered style, paradigm, or TLA of the minute is not an exception. If you can dream it I can abuse it. If you judge a feature of a ...

Martin Buchwitz is editor of SPS Magazin in Germany. SPS Magazin has concentrated on the topic of engineering of control systems for a few months now, especially on programming. The reason for us ...