Overview of Object-Oriented Programming

Summary

In this chapter, you were introduced to OOP and got a brief history of Visual Basic. Now that you have an understanding of what constitutes an OOP language and why OOP languages are so important to enterprise-level application development, your next step is to become familiar with how OOP applications are designed.

Successful applications must be carefully planned and developed before any meaningful coding takes place. The next chapter is the first in a series of three aimed at introducing you to some of the techniques used when designing object-oriented applications. You will look at the process of deciding which objects need to be included in an application and which attributes of these objects are important to the functionality of that application.