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.

Fancy word: encapsulation You can see in the above code sample how the dog object keeps all the properties together. In object-oriented programming, there is a fancy word for this: encapsulation ...

This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding any modern software, not just modern embedded software. As usual in ...