Question

State any six principal advantages of object oriented programming.

Answer 1

• Inheritance helps reduce duplicate code and allows reuse and extension of existing classes.
• Data hiding (encapsulation) improves program security and protects data.
• Multiple objects can exist independently without affecting each other.
• Work on a project can be easily divided based on objects.
• OOP systems can be expanded or scaled from small applications to large systems.
• Software complexity becomes easier to control and manage.
• Real-world entities can be directly represented as objects in programs.
• Provides effective message passing for communication between objects.