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 ...

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 ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

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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.

Scala is essentially the C++ of high level (ergo, memory managed) languages on the JVM. It supports many paradigms equally, and due to this, it has sacrificed the "simplicity" of the language. Even ...

The examination of a problem by modeling it as a group of interacting objects. An object is defined by its class, data elements and behavior. For example; in an order processing system, an invoice is ...

For my software engineering class I have an assignment that deals with investigating OO design alternatives.<BR><BR>After I googled for it, I found things like <B>algorithmic</B> and <B>structured</B> ...