Concepts of Object-oriented Programming

There are many books on object-oriented programming for the professional programmer or designer who wants an in-depth knowledge. This is the first book for people that simply want to know what it is all about; that just covers the important ideas without trying to make the reader into a programmer or designer of object-oriented systems. The book opens with a description of the differences between the procedural & object-oriented programming approaches. Then the book presents the basic concepts of object-oriented programming with a comprehensive overview of what objects are & how they are defined, how classes are used in data hiding & message passing, what inheritance is, how it works, ways the object-oriented method can be implemented for data abstraction, & much more.