This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding ... OOP is not the use of any specific programming language, such as ...

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

Simula, an acronym for Simulation Language, is touted as the first object-oriented programming language created by Norwegian ...

(More about this in a moment.) This example also demonstrates polymorphism, which is one of the more complex concepts in object-oriented programming. Essentially, polymorphism means that a subtype ...

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