Week 3: Object-Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm that uses objects to represent data and functionality. OOP can be view as a collection of interactive objects that correspond to complex concepts in the real world which combine data with the sets of methods for accessing and managing data. Object-oriented programming is important for computer scientists because it keeps data safer by making it not accessible by the rest of the program. Abstract datatypes are implemented while details are hidden. Also, new objects with small difference to existing ones can be easily created since OOP makes it easy to maintain and modify existing code.