Object-Oriented Programming Foundations

📋 Course Outline

1. Programming Paradigms and Procedural Limits
2. Object-Oriented Programming Essentials
3. Classes Objects and Members
4. Encapsulation Abstraction and Hiding
5. Inheritance and Polymorphism
6. Binding and Message Passing
7. Benefits of Object-Oriented Programming

📖 1. Programming Paradigms and Procedural Limits

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Programming language : A language used to write instructions and tell a computer how to perform specific tasks.
• Procedural programming : An approach in which a program is written as a sequence of steps or procedures to solve a problem and executes instructions from top to bottom.

★ Must-know

• The main limitations are:
  • difficult code reuse
  • increasingly difficult error checking
  • dependence between code sections
  • unsuitability for real-world applications
  • lack of data security
  • difficult maintenance in large programs

Further detail

• Procedural programming is easy to learn, supports code reuse through functions, and is suitable for small and medium-sized programs.

💡 Memory Hook

Procedural programming follows steps; OOP organizes data and behavior around objects.