As briefly mentioned earlier, OOP provides a modular approach to writing self-contained units of code. The concept of OOP centers around what we call the four pillars of object-oriented programming.
They are as follows:
The order doesn't really matter, but I always write the four pillars in this order because I use the mnemonic A PIE to remember each one. Let's discuss each of these concepts in more detail.
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