My search over the internet for a more friendly and comprehensive explanation of the above term has not yielded any good help.

Experienced Programmers, Whats your down to earth explanation of the concept?

fromnigeria:
My search over the internet for a more friendly and comprehensive explanation of the above term has not yielded any good help.

Experienced Programmers, Whats your down to earth explanation of the concept?

Before I answer your question,
What your own understanding about object oriented programming?

talk2hb1:
Before I answer your question, What your own understanding about object oriented programming?

No really real good understanding for now they talk about methods classes and all that

fromnigeria:

No really real good understanding for now
they talk about methods classes and all that

This is Monday morning, I will reply you later in the day

talk2hb1:
This is Monday morning, I will reply you later in the day

alright sir

object oriented programming is a style or “way” of programming, it is like is a way of thinking on how to solve a problem. Firstly you must know that programs are divided into data and functions, eg a simple game having sprite images(data) and functions directing how the sprite images will move in the game world when some buttons are pressed, in oop data and functions(methods) are combined into a class which acts as templates(or a plan on how the data will change/behave when the program is running) for objects which are classes brought to live. Combinations of these data and functions can affect Code Reuse and Recycling amongst other things.

Quoting Steve Jobs from the rolling stone interview:

Would you explain, in simple terms, exactly what object-oriented software is?

"Objects are like people. They're living, breathing things that have knowledge inside them about how to do things and have memory inside them so they can remember things. And rather than interacting with them at a very low level, you interact with them at a very high level of abstraction, like we're doing right here.
Here's an example: If I'm your laundry object, you can give me your dirty clothes and send me a message that says, "Can you get my clothes laundered, please." I happen to know where the best laundry place in San Francisco is. And I speak English, and I have dollars in my pockets. So I go out and hail a taxicab and tell the driver to take me to this place in San Francisco. I go get your clothes laundered, I jump back in the cab, I get back here. I give you your clean clothes and say, "Here are your clean clothes."
You have no idea how I did that. You have no knowledge of the laundry place. Maybe you speak French, and you can't even hail a taxi. You can't pay for one, you don't have dollars in your pocket. Yet I knew how to do all of that. And you didn't have to know any of it. All that complexity was hidden inside of me, and we were able to interact at a very high level of abstraction. That's what objects are. They encapsulate complexity, and the interfaces to that complexity are high level."

Normal Programing->
#A simple program for info about three nairaland employees.
Employee1_name=”fromnigeria”;
Employee1_age= 22;
Employee1_salary=150000;
Employee2_name=”badyear”;
Employee2_age=26;
Employee2_salary=200000;
Employee3_name=”buhari”;
Employee3_age=30
Employee3_salary=400000;


Object Oriented Programing->
#A simple object oriented program for info about three nairaland employees.
Class Employees{
Char name;
Int age;
Int salary;
}
Employee1=Employees(“fromnigeria”,22 , 150000);
Employee2=Employees(“badyear”,26,200000);
Employee3=Employees(“buhari”,30,400000);

print(I hope this was helpful! );
N.B This was not written specifically for any programming language

There are different kinds of programming paradigms.

A programming paradigm is a style or “way” of programming. Some languages make it easy to write in some paradigms but not others.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is just one of such paradigms that create “objects” during the phase of programming.

Other programming paradigms includes:-
Imperative, Declarative, Structured, Procedural, Functional (Application), Function-Level (Combinator), Event-Driven

The first object oriented language was Simula-67; Smalltalk followed soon after as the first "pure" object-oriented language. Many languages designed from the 1980s to the present have been object-oriented, notably C++, Python, Java, C#, Ruby, JavaScript and PHP.

Object Oriented Programming is much more similar to the way the real-world works; it is comparable to the human brain. A message must be sent requesting the data, just like people must ask one another for data/information since we cannot see inside each other’s heads.
In OOP, data and functionality are combined and wrapped inside what is called an “object” (in other words; each program is made up of many entities called “objects”). These objects have state (attribute) and behavior (method). OOP is based on the sending of messages to objects. Objects respond to messages by performing operations.

SOME DEFINITION OF OOP

OOP: is a programming style of doing real world thinking and simulating the real world in computer programs.

OOP: is a programming paradigms that creates “objects” during the phase of programming.

OOP: is an approach to problem solving where all computations are carried out using objects.

Objects are similar to real world entities, every object has two things namely: Attributes and Methods (that is: Properties and Behaviors).

OOP correlates the real world entities (objects) properties and behaviors. These properties and behaviors of objects are often called with different name by different programming authors as follow:-
Properties are also called: Attributes, Variables, Data members, Fields, Characteristics
Behaviors are also called: Methods, Fucntion members, Actions, Procedures

However, I prefer to call them: Attributes and Methods

Source: http://umar-yusuf..com.ng/2016/05/an-introduction-to-object-oriented-programming-in-python1.html

ovoSoftware:
object oriented programming is a style or “way” of programming, it is like is a way of thinking on how to solve a problem. Firstly you must know that programs are divided into data and functions, eg a simple game having sprite images(data) and functions directing how the sprite images will move in the game world when some buttons are pressed, in oop data and functions(methods) are combined into a class which acts as templates(or a plan on how the data will change/behave when the program is running) for objects which are classes brought to live. Combinations of these data and functions can affect Code Reuse and Recycling amongst other things.

Quoting Steve Jobs from the rolling stone interview:

Would you explain, in simple terms, exactly what object-oriented software is?

"Objects are like people. They're living, breathing things that have knowledge inside them about how to do things and have memory inside them so they can remember things. And rather than interacting with them at a very low level, you interact with them at a very high level of abstraction, like we're doing right here.
Here's an example: If I'm your laundry object, you can give me your dirty clothes and send me a message that says, "Can you get my clothes laundered, please." I happen to know where the best laundry place in San Francisco is. And I speak English, and I have dollars in my pockets. So I go out and hail a taxicab and tell the driver to take me to this place in San Francisco. I go get your clothes laundered, I jump back in the cab, I get back here. I give you your clean clothes and say, "Here are your clean clothes."
You have no idea how I did that. You have no knowledge of the laundry place. Maybe you speak French, and you can't even hail a taxi. You can't pay for one, you don't have dollars in your pocket. Yet I knew how to do all of that. And you didn't have to know any of it. All that complexity was hidden inside of me, and we were able to interact at a very high level of abstraction. That's what objects are. They encapsulate complexity, and the interfaces to that complexity are high level."

thanks man, thanks so much.

Badyear:
Normal Programing-> #A simple program for info about three nairaland employees. Employee1_name=”fromnigeria”; Employee1_age= 22; Employee1_salary=150000; Employee2_name=”badyear”; Employee2_age=26; Employee2_salary=200000; Employee3_name=”buhari”; Employee3_age=30 Employee3_salary=400000;

Object Oriented Programing-> #A simple object oriented program for info about three nairaland employees. Class Employees{ Char name; Int age; Int salary; } Employee1=Employees(“fromnigeria”,22 , 150000); Employee2=Employees(“badyear”,26,200000); Employee3=Employees(“buhari”,30,400000);
print(I hope this was helpful! ); N.B This was not written specifically for any programming language

I spot the differences. I thank you so much for bordering to.

umaryusuf:

There are different kinds of programming paradigms.

A programming paradigm is a style or “way” of programming. Some languages make it easy to write in some paradigms but not others.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is just one of such paradigms that create “objects” during the phase of programming.

Other programming paradigms includes:-
Imperative, Declarative, Structured, Procedural, Functional (Application), Function-Level (Combinator), Event-Driven

The first object oriented language was Simula-67; Smalltalk followed soon after as the first "pure" object-oriented language. Many languages designed from the 1980s to the present have been object-oriented, notably C++, Python, Java, C#, Ruby, JavaScript and PHP.

Object Oriented Programming is much more similar to the way the real-world works; it is comparable to the human brain. A message must be sent requesting the data, just like people must ask one another for data/information since we cannot see inside each other’s heads.
In OOP, data and functionality are combined and wrapped inside what is called an “object” (in other words; each program is made up of many entities called “objects”). These objects have state (attribute) and behavior (method). OOP is based on the sending of messages to objects. Objects respond to messages by performing operations.

SOME DEFINITION OF OOP

OOP: is a programming style of doing real world thinking and simulating the real world in computer programs.

OOP: is a programming paradigms that creates “objects” during the phase of programming.

OOP: is an approach to problem solving where all computations are carried out using objects.

Objects are similar to real world entities, every object has two things namely: Attributes and Methods (that is: Properties and Behaviors).

OOP correlates the real world entities (objects) properties and behaviors. These properties and behaviors of objects are often called with different name by different programming authors as follow:-
Properties are also called: Attributes, Variables, Data members, Fields, Characteristics
Behaviors are also called: Methods, Fucntion members, Actions, Procedures

However, I prefer to call them: Attributes and Methods

Source: http://umar-yusuf..com.ng/2016/05/an-introduction-to-object-oriented-programming-in-python1.html

thanks for taking your time.

To me OOP is a programming philosophy, where you see/abstract your software as an Object(Noun), with Properties(Adjective), and with Action(Verb).