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Difficult Questions

What is Object-Oriented Programming?
Why is it so popular?
- OOP is a revolutionary idea, totally unlike anything that has come before in programming languages
- OOP is an evolutionary step, following naturally on the heels of earlier programming abstractions

Intro OOP, Chapter 1, Slide 2

The next slide begins the intuitive high level exploration of the basic concepts in object-oriented programming.
The examination of object-oriented ideas in the historical progression of programming concepts begins on slide 31.