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Object-Oriented Programming

Okay, so by the late 1980s, the software industry was beginning to get seriously bogged down by spaghettification and was looking for some real answers.

Enter Object Oriented Programming
(OOP)

OOP was designed to help manage the complexification of software through abstraction. In OOP, you build small, self-contained bits of code that correspond more closely to how you think about your program and how your program mirrors the real world.

Instead of building one behemoth procedural program that does everything but is extremely complex, in OOP you build many, many small, easy to use components that can work together to solve the same problem as a group.

This team work is made possible through abstraction. Abstraction is a process simplification; taking a complex problem and hiding the complex bits so that you can focus on a higher level that may not be as complex.

In OOP, abstraction is implemented through the use of "objects". Objects abstract complex problems into simple, manageable pieces.

Let's see how....

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Selena Sol contributes to the JavaBoutique's Introduction to Java. Selena curently works for Barclays Capital in London, one of the leading global investment banks in Europe and has worked as a software developer for the National Center for Human Genome research, Microline Software, Neuron Data, and Electric Eye in Singapore. Selena is perhaps best-known for creating the Public Domain Web Script Archive (Extropia) and writing several books on Web Programming (Perl, CGI, Java).
Email: selena@extropia.com

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