School Project One

 Java and Object-Oriented Programming: A Newbie-to-Newbie Guide Learning Java for the first time can feel a little intimidating, especially if you are coming from another programming language or are still new to programming in general. I am approaching this from a “newbie-to-newbie” perspective, so my goal is not to sound like an expert. My goal is to explain the basic idea in a way that would have helped me when I first started. The first thing to understand is that Java is an object-oriented programming language. Object-oriented programming, often called OOP, is a way of designing programs around objects. An object can represent something from the real world, such as a car, employee, customer, dog, phone, or bank account. In Java, these objects are usually created from classes. A class is like a blueprint, and an object is something created from that blueprint. For example, if “Dog” were a class, then Olivia and Puffin could be two different dog objects. They may share common tra...