Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

Thanks to its versatility, Java is one of the most leading programming languages in the world. It's also one of the top choices for Android app development. Yet, it's one of the easiest languages to ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, has a new Cocoa training manual, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, available from Addison-Wesley. Cocoa is an advanced object-oriented programming environment ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general, age ...