OBJECT ORIENTATION AND DATABASES
What is object orientation?
Object orientation is a programming paradigm where the world is seen as a collection of objects that exhibit both state and behaviour. The state of an object at any one time is the aggregation of the values of the object’s attributes. The behaviour is the set of messages to which the object can respond. Objects respond to messages by executing methods, short pieces of program code.
Objects are grouped into classes. So, for example, within an object oriented program to manage human resources there could be an Employee class with attributes of payroll Number, title, surname, other Names, birth Date, salary, etc. One of the instances of this class, an object, for our human resources ...
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