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 ...

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 ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields, ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s ...

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 ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...