The Four Principles of Object Oriented Programming (What They Are and Why They Are Wrong!)

Abstraction, Polymorphism, Inheritance and Encapsulation… Yikes! What the heck does all that mean and why should anyone care?

Programming is full of jargon. Object Oriented Programming takes jargon to a whole new level. But even so, that list of the “four fundamentals of object oriented programming” is missing something important. In this video, I explain what the four principles are. And I then explain why they are making a big deal out of something that is essentially quite simple.

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