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 ...

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 ...

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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design is a course that presents an introduction to the design and construction of software systems using techniques that view a system as a set of objects that work ...

To know Microsoft's PowerShell is to love it. That's how most readers feel -- it's just tough getting to that point. PowerShell 1.0, formerly code-named "Monad" and later "MSH," is Microsoft's new ...

Per Bothner presented “Speedy Scripting: Productivity and Performance” today at JavaOne 2010. He started into this topic by presenting things we like about scripting languages and things we like about ...