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

What does object-oriented programming actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

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 ...

James Ward and Joshua Suereth explain the evolutions happening in many OOP languages today and how to take advantage of those changes.

I started wondering about what object oriented programming was and I thought Erlang wasn't object oriented, it was a functional programming language. Then, my thesis supervisor said "But you're ...

Java is a popular programming language that every programmer should learn. This article explains much of what you need to know.

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When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented ...