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title: "OOP Meaning – What is Object-Oriented Programming?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/oop-meaning-what-is-object-oriented-programming--bk26ssjws
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-object-oriented-programming/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
author: "Hillary Nyakundi"
published: 2022-09-06T18:44:53.275Z
updated: 2022-09-06T18:44:53.208Z
tags: ["functional-programming"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 39
comments: 0
language: en
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# OOP Meaning – What is Object-Oriented Programming?

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@larymak](https://daily.dev/larymak) · 8 min read · 39 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

OOP is a programming paradigm that relies on the concept of classes and objects. The word object-oriented is a combination of two terms, object and oriented. When a class is defined initially, the description is the only object that is defined.

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