Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

So not only is Java still relevant in terms of OOA&D, but it has evolved to support functional programming, which is just as important today as support for object-oriented programming. The 7 benefits ...

Why does Java's standard class library contain empty interfaces like Cloneable and Serializable? Find out why in this sixth installment in the "Object-oriented language basics" series. You'll also ...

Last time, in ”Transitioning into object-oriented programming using Java,” we learned that for a programming language to be truly object-oriented, it should support information hiding ...

An introduction to the principles of object-oriented programming. This course covers both object-oriented programming techniques and their application to program design including classes, objects and ...

The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".