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.

Object-oriented programming gives us modifiers, which control the visibility of members and methods. In some languages, like Java, we have modifiers such as private and public.

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 ...

While most students pick up algorithmic approaches to programming fairly easily, many struggle to get their heads around the idea of object-orientation. Written by Christopher Dawson, Contributor ...