Object-Oriented PHP by Peter Lavin teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (OOP) by guiding the reader through a series of inter-related example classes. There are two audiences that ...

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 ...

You’d think that after all this time you might have to go a long way to find a new storage technology. However, the reality is to the contrary. Recently a bunch of start-ups – Cluster File Systems, ...

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 ...

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Uncover modern Python with this guide to Python data structures, design patterns, and effective object-oriented techniques. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a popular design paradigm in which data ...

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 ...

In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. The idea behind object-oriented programming is that a computer program may be seen as composed of a ...

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 ...