Java History and OOP Concepts

Vocabulary flashcards covering the historical development of Java and introduction to Object-Oriented Programming concepts as presented in the lecture.

James Ghosting

Known as the Father of Java, he developed the language along with a team at Sun microsystems in 1991.

Oak

The original name of Java at the time of its invention.

1995

The year Oak was renamed to java.

Platform-neutral language

The most amazing feature of Java, signifying it is the first programming language not tied to any particular hardware or operating systems.

Object-Oriented approach

An approach with the major objective to eliminate the flaws encountered in the procedural approach.

Objects

Entities into which a problem is decomposed to build data and functions around them; they are the most important thing in OOP.

Composition of an object

The combination of data and methods.

Pure object oriented Programming language

A description of Java, signifying that everything in the language is in the form of an object.

Class

A user defined datatype which is a combination of 'data members' and 'methods'.