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The object-oriented paradigm is currently the most popular way of analysing, designing, and developing application systems, especially large ones. To obtain an understanding of this paradigm, we could begin by asking: What exactly does the phrase ‘object-oriented’ mean? Looking at it quite literally, labelling something as ‘object-oriented’ implies that objects play a central role, and we elaborate this further as a perspective that views the elements of a given situation by decomposing them into objects and object relationships.

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Dathan, B., Ramnath, S. (2015). Introduction. In: Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24280-4_1

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