One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding any modern software, not just modern embedded software. As usual in ...

What is a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and what does “real-time” mean anyway? What are the various kinds of state machines, and how to code them efficiently in C? What is object-oriented ...

What is polymorphism in object oriented programming ? The word polymorphism comes from Greek and means having several different forms. This is one of the essential concepts of object-oriented ...

Understand the key concepts behind composition and inheritance that allow you to build reusable and flexible types in your .NET applications. Two of the key concepts in object-oriented programming ...

The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s ...

In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. The idea behind object-oriented programming is that a computer program may be seen as composed of a ...

Martin Buchwitz is editor of SPS Magazin in Germany. SPS Magazin has concentrated on the topic of engineering of control systems for a few months now, especially on programming. The reason for us ...