Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

You’ll notice the this keyword in the previous example. This keyword appears in many object-oriented programming languages. It essentially says: I’m referring to the current object.

This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP ... OOP is not the use of any specific programming language, such as C++, Java, or Python, but rather a set of fundamental ...

Objective-C is the object-oriented programming language used by developers for iOS. It had its start in 1983, the same year C++ was created. C++ proved far more popular over the years.