It’s been around for a while, but I’m only now beginning to learn about it in any detail. I actually remember learning Q-Basic and C++ (with allonby at school actually) and vaguely recall the transition to OOP. Personally, I really hope the next significant change in programming is called Post-Object Oriented Programming.

For anyone that’s just starting out and having a bit of trouble wrapping the ‘ol noodle around OOP, my advice is to simply accept it! Well, the idea of OOP, I mean. Objects are anything that can be called by a program and even the program itself. A vector of numbers (just a list of numbers, but programming guides prefer the term ‘vector’) is an object as is the 1000 lines of some function you just typed out. I’ll have more to say as I learn more about it and have basic questions that take me a bloody donkey’s age to find the answers to. Then, I’ll post the Q and A. Hopefully, it’ll save someone out there some amount of time to get the info from someone who is a recent convert to compu-geekdom. Convert or Die!