Object-Oriented Programming

It has been said that teaching OOP to those with no programming background is easier than those with experience in (procedural or functional) programming.¹ Experienced programmers get used to procedural (or functional) thinking and modeling. On the other hand, for non-programmers, the object-oriented way of decomposing a problem is similar to the way they are used to look at real-life situations. Indeed, we live in a world made up of interacting objects.

We expect that you have modest programming experience in OOP languages (at least in Java); a very brief and high-level overview of important OOP concepts follows.