This class does not focus on object-oriented programming; however, we will examine many examples of object-oriented systems written in Java, Python, and other languages. A primary focus will be the ...

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".

In object-oriented programming, these principles are called design patterns. In the next couple posts, I’m going to crack the lid on a few of these. What’s more, ...

Get an overview of design patterns ... Prior to the 1991 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Gamma and Richard Helm started to catalog patterns. At an OOPSLA workshop held in ...

To achieve a true encapsulation for concurrency, you need to go beyond a simple class and employ the so-called active class, also known as the active object design pattern. This pattern is a fusion of ...

Good object-oriented design sometimes takes a back seat to a need to get things done, and the single responsibility model gets thrown out the window. Then, out of nothingness, the God object emerges.