Object Oriented Programming for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: The Modern Programming Concept You Must Show You Understand for High Tech Jobs"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Anyone who wants to have a career as a computer programmer today better know what object oriented programming (OOP) is, even if they learn C or some other non-object oriented program. If a job interviewer talks to you about object oriented programming and it’s obvious you don’t have a clue, they’ll probably assume you’re just as behind the times on the language you claim to know.

Sooner or later you’re probably going to have to learn an object oriented programming language anyway, so you might as well get used to the basic concepts now

Object oriented programming is really not that hard, unless you’re an "old-style" programmer who hasn’t kept up with the times.

object oriented programming is now supported by a number of languages, including C++, Java, Small Talk, Delphi, Visual FoxPro and others, although the first two are the most important.

Some of you may be wondering, what is NON object oriented programming?

Let me explain both of them this way.

Before object oriented programming, there was sequential programming

That is, programmers on their computer jobs wrote programs to go from Line 1 through Line 5,000,000 step by step, many times repeating things and often skipping things, depending on what was happening. But still, the basic procedure was step by step by step. In sequence, right?

Let’s say you’re writing a program to tell the baseball team which is currently in the field what to do. So, you write a series of lines such as:

Pitcher throws ball close to front of batter.

If batter swings and misses, add 1 to strike count.

Pitcher throws ball again.

If batter hits ball to left field, left fielder runs toward estimated landing area.

Left fielder keeps eye on ball and adjusts to be under ball as it comes down.

Left fielder holds left hand with glove to where ball is estimated to land.

Left fielder holds glove in open position.

Left fielder catches ball.

Batter is out.

Else, left fielder fumbles ball.

Batter is safe on first

And so on, etc, etc, etc

Step by weary step, taking into account all possible events. Over and over and over again.

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