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  1. What is Object Oriented Programming?
  2. What is a class
  3. Let the Coding Begin
  4. Java Variables
  5. Stream Input/Output
  6. Arithmetic Operations
  7. Control Statements
  8. Switch Statement
  9. The For Loop
  10. The while loop
  11. The do...while Loop
  12. Break and continue
  13. Java Strings
  14. Java Arrays
  15. Traversing Arrays
  16. More on Object Oriented Programming
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What is Object Oriented Programming?

Object Oriented Programming is a “Way of Programming” that goes by translating, at best, real life Objects into code. I know you didn’t understand this so I will explain further ahead using examples.

An example of a real life object would be a vehicle. Yeah So?! Well, to try and decompose the vehicle into different elements, we could notice that a car has it’s type (truck, car, train etc…) and then it has attributes (Speed, License, Number of passengers etc…). What else? The car also has functions (Drive forward, Drive backwards, Turn right, Turn left, Brake, etc…).

And as we said, Object Oriented Programming involves transforming these into computer code. How to do that? We need to focus on those 3 keywords. The type, attributes and functions.