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.

Functional programming supports well-defined, defensible software giving reproducible results. Object-oriented programming is the mechanism par excellence for managing complexity while keeping things ...

The basics of object-oriented programming (OOP) were there -- you could create a class and single inheritance was supported. With the release of PHP 5 in 2004 there was plenty of room for improving ...