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object-oriented paradigm has definition An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a collection of classes that each have responsibilities for various operations, and which are instantiated at run time to create objects 2001-08-30 14:56:48.0
has feature polymorphism
has fundamental units objects
helps to ensure communicational cohesion
is a subtopic of 2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
is a kind of paradigm
organizes code into classes that each contain procedures for manipulating instances of that class alone 2001-08-30 14:56:48.0

object-oriented paradigm	has definition An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a collection of classes that each have responsibilities for various operations, and which are instantiated at run time to create objects
	has feature polymorphism
	has fundamental units objects
	helps to ensure communicational cohesion
	is a subtopic of 2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
	is a kind of paradigm
	organizes code into classes that each contain procedures for manipulating instances of that class alone