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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

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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 ...

Celebrating 20 years, LabVIEW 8.20 takes a new approach to OOP. To mark the 20th anniversary of LabVIEW, along comes LabVIEW 8.20 replete with object-oriented support. If the original LabVIEW is C, ...

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 ...