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Today’s article is going to be quite interesting. Remember how I said I’d eventually cover OOP (Object Oriented Programming)?.... Well… THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME! Object oriented programming, as much as many folks (except for me shockingly haha) hate, IT’S A REQUIRED skill and knowledge set ESPECIALLY if you plan to be a Software engineer or read ANY form of code in general. I kid you not, NOT knowing OOP will lock you out of being able to read 99 percent of modern code today. It’s EVERYWHERE so it’s CRUCIAL you understand it.

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Today’s article is going to be quite interesting. Remember how I said I’d eventually cover OOP (Object Oriented Programming)?.... Well… THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME! Object oriented programming, as much as many folks (except for me shockingly haha) hate, IT’S A REQUIRED skill and knowledge set ESPECIALLY if you plan to be a Software engineer or read ANY form of code in general. I kid you not, NOT knowing OOP will lock you out of being able to read 99 percent of modern code today. It’s EVERYWHERE so it’s CRUCIAL you understand it.

For today’s article, instead of teaching it via conventional analogies and methods, I’m going to mix it up a bit and do it my own way. I’m also going to simplify and elaborate on stuff like Polymorphism as well. I’m going to stick to the more general stuff that’s seen in many languages that feature some form of OOP. I’ll even talk about stuff like methods which is Javascripts supposed “answer” or “version” of OOP in a sense (although they still feature it in C++ fashion shockingly).

Sit back, relax, and prepare to embrace how something is so complicated… CAN BE REALLY SO SIMPLE HAHA.

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I'll be discussing the following topics in order:

🎃 What is OOP?

🎃 What is OOP (Members)?

You can click on any of the topics to simply check that one out if it interests you!

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What is OOP? 🕸🕸🎃🕸🕸

OOP, which stands for Object Oriented Programming, is just basically a way to model custom functions that you can call and use around in your code. It simplifies the complexity and time consuming need to re-write complex programming algorithms from scratch, making your life easier. A perfect example of what I mean by that would be modules like with Python, were you can just “import’ or “include” something and you just call an “object” for it and you’re good to go.

For example, (DOWNLOAD THE IMAGE IF IT'S TOO SMALL FOR YOU)

Without OOP, you’d have to build ALL, and I mean ALL of this from scratch over and over and over again.

What is OOP (Members)? 🕸🕸🎃🕸🕸

You’ve probably seen me mention something about “members” that belong to a class, where you can “call them” and use any that are available to you. Members are basically the overall functions that make up classes and can even be made available to other classes that need them via “Polymorphism”, which is a fancy term for “inheritance”, which is where other classes you’ve written “inherit” functions belonging to other classes you have Think of it like “biology”, where you “inherit’ dominant and recessive traits stemming from your parents.

Here’s an example to put it better into perspective for you. I’m going with C++ on this one since it’s THE BEST example one can give on the matter