This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding any modern software, not just modern embedded software. As usual in ...

The legend of the Tower of Babel depicts the fact that humans lost the ability to speak a common language and began to use different dialects, making communication between them far more difficult.

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 ...

To understand aspect-oriented programming (AOP), let’s first take a look at two models of labor union organization in the U.S. The old American Federation of Labor organized workers vertically, ...

What is a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and what does “real-time” mean anyway? What are the various kinds of state machines, and how to code them efficiently in C? What is object-oriented ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of LabVIEW, along comes LabVIEW 8.20 replete with object-oriented support. If the original LabVIEW is C, LabVIEW 8.20 is C++. It's a superset based upon the original ...

I've seen textbook definitions of Information Hiding and Encapsulation in class but I still cannot grasp the concept of it because I can't consider them in examples. Can anyone give their ...