Before we delve too deeply into how to reason about Object-Orientation and how to utilize it in your programming efforts, it would be useful to understand why object-orientation came to exist. This initial chapter seeks to explore the origins behind object-oriented programming.

Key Terms

Some key terms to learn in this chapter are:

• The Software Crisis
• GOTO statements
• Programming Language Paradigm
• Imperative Programming
• Functional Programming
• Structured Programming
• Object-Orientation