Guide Note

Object Oriented Programming, often-abbreviated OOP, is a programming language model organized around the creation of objects and classes to prevent re-typing the code.

Fast Facts

First OOP language: Simula¹
Highly emphasizes the re-usability of programming code
Can be more difficult to write than procedural code

History

Object Oriented Programming debuted in the 1970s. The primary use was to maintain quality as the complexity of software and hardware increased.²

Concepts

There are many concepts to object oriented programming. These concepts include classes, objects, instance, method, message passing, inheritance, encapsulation, abstraction and polymorphism.³

Why Write OOP

The main reason for using an object oriented programming language is the ability to write the code once and to be able to use the code again. You can create as many classes and objects as needed. You can then create as many objects from the classes as you want, which drastically shortens code-writing time.

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Object Oriented Programming History

Jian Huang: A Brief History of Object-Oriented Programming.
IBM: History-making components
The Hoss Man: Survey of Object Oriented Programming Languages

Notable Figures in Object Oriented Programming

Object Oriented Programming Languages

Wikipedia: Object-Oriented Programming Language

Languages

Simula: Wikipedia
Smalltalk: Wikipedia | Official Site
C++: Wikipedia
C#: Wikipedia
Objective-C: Wikipedia
Java: Wikipedia | Official Site
Python: Wikipedia | Official Site

Object Oriented Programming Research

AT&T Labs Research: Why C++ Is Not Just An ObjectOriented Programming Language (56 KB)
Python.org: Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming in Python with ATOM

Object Oriented Programming Education Resources

Yahoo! Directory: Object-Oriented Programming Tools
University Of Kent: Sun Center of Excellence for Object-Oriented Teaching and Training
University of South Queensland: Object-Oriented Programming in C++

Object Oriented Programming Blogs and Forums

Google Blog Search: Object Oriented Programming
West Wind Technologies: Rick Strahl's Web Log
Coding Horror: When Object-Oriented Rendering is Too Much Code (June 21, 2006)
Janea Taylor: Structured vs. Object-Oriented Programming (December 2, 2005)

Object Oriented Programming Books and Publications

Amazon.com: Object-Oriented Programming
O'Reilly Media: Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET
O'Reilly Media: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Google Book Search: Object Oriented Programming
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Object Oriented Programming Theories

Portal: Type theories and object-oriented programmimg (March 1988)
Wikipedia: Polymorphism in object-oriented programming
Wikipedia: Generic Programming
Wikipedia: Extreme Programming

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