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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 ...

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 ...

The story begins in 1979 when Bjarne was conducting research at Bell Labs, primarily using C language. C language is powerful, but Bjarne felt it was "too hardcore"; managing complexity in large ...

Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster". In it, he said that precious time and ...

Functional programming supports well-defined, defensible software giving reproducible results. Object-oriented programming is the mechanism par excellence for managing complexity while keeping things ...

One of the most critical aspects of object-oriented programming is encapsulation, which allows one to define labels for the data members and member functions, to specify if they are accessible from ...

Most applications have a number of cross-cutting concerns, such as logging, exception handling, transaction handling and security. These items do not deal with the core business logic of an ...