This poem is written by Vadim Rabovsky, a Java developer from Rochester, NY Advanced topics of object oriented programming.Presenting the world as a random collectionOf objects is dubious. Far from perfection,It hardly can pass for a decent expressi

You know the drill: a language is called object-oriented if it supports inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism. And what do we do with interfaces?

Your old programming habits influence the style of your programming in any new language you learn. Let me illustrate my point using Flex.

For years, object-oriented programmers knew that one of the main OOP features is encapsulation: an ability to hide and protect object internals. But do we really need protected variables?