Question 9 • Introduction to Information Technology - EL3701
Object-oriented programming became an important programming-language approach in the 1970s and 1980s. It organizes programs into objects, which bundle data with the code (methods) that works on that data, and this modular structure can help programmers collaborate. Translating programs between low-level and high-level languages is not a defining characteristic of object-oriented programming.
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