Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a long list of commands (instructions). In imperative programming, you write your code the way you ...

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.

For example, object-oriented languages, such as Java, split application tasks between a set of objects with specific responsibilities. Languages are sometimes categorized as high or low level.