Object-oriented programming allows procedures about objects to be created whose exact type is not known until runtime. For example, a screen cursor may change its shape from an arrow to a line ...

Someday, we won’t even look at the code that our AI agent produces. We’ll take it for granted, just as we do the assembly ...

In programming we were particularly interested in the subject of object-oriented programming (OOP). At this point, an interim conclusion may be granted: The topic of OOP has sneaked in and established ...

In making the transition from a structured language to an object-oriented language, a software engineer must understand the concept of data abstraction and encapsulation. This, I believe, is the ...

Object-oriented databases play nicely with object-oriented programming languages. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

Proponents of object-oriented techniques point to the flexibility and extensibility of object-oriented systems along with other benefits such as increased modularity, abstraction, and encapsulation.

Instances are the foundation of object-oriented programming. Static methods are ones that aren't passed in any instance variables. As such, if you move static methods and static variables into a ...

The conceptual shift during analysis and design is considered architectural, whereas for programming it is deemed merely incremental. The managerial implications of these findings are discussed and ...