computation Business object – Entity within a multi-tiered software application Instance (computer science) – Concrete manifestation of an object (class) in software...

In computer science, object composition and object aggregation are closely related ways to combine objects or data types into more complex ones. In conversation...

In computer science, an instance is an occurrence of a software element that is based on a type definition. When created, an occurrence is said to have...

Computer science (also called computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and...

This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including...

Language feature in object-oriented programming Mixin – Class in object-oriented programming languages Polymorphism (computer science) – Using one interface...

engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of objects and systems...

A business object is an entity within a multi-tiered software application that works in conjunction with the data access and business logic layers to transport...

(AP) Computer Science A (also known as AP CompSci, AP CompSci A, AP CSA, AP Computer Science Applications, or AP Java) is an AP Computer Science course...

In computer science, a value object is a small object that represents a simple entity whose equality is not based on identity: i.e. two value objects are...

In computer science, marshalling or marshaling (US spelling) is the process of transforming the memory representation of an object into a data format...

Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5520. pp. 57–99. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03153-3_2. ISBN 978-3-642-03152-6...

Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a...

Object (grammar), a sentence element, such as a direct object or an indirect object 3D model, a representation of a physical object Object (computer science)...

Decomposition in computer science, also known as factoring, is breaking a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand...

Design patterns gained popularity in computer science after the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software was published in 1994...

In computer programming, a function object is a construct allowing an object to be invoked or called as if it were an ordinary function, usually with...

In object-oriented programming, object copying is creating a copy of an existing object, a unit of data in object-oriented programming. The resulting object...

In computer science, a mock object is an object that imitates a production object in limited ways. A programmer might use a mock object as a test double...

polymorphism is the use of one symbol to represent multiple different types. In object-oriented programming, polymorphism is the provision of one interface to...

In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated...

In computer science, a metaobject is an object that manipulates, creates, describes, or implements objects (including itself). The object that the metaobject...

In computer science, an offset within an array or other data structure object is an integer indicating the distance (displacement) between the beginning...

a portable object is an object which can be accessed through a normal method call while possibly residing in memory on another computer. It is portable...

In object-oriented programming, a god object (sometimes also called an omniscient or all-knowing object) is an object that references a large number of...

A callable object, in computer programming, is any object that can be called like a function. pointer to function; pointer to member function; functor;...

In object-oriented (OO) and functional programming, an immutable object (unchangeable object) is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is...

list of terms found in object-oriented programming. Abstract class Accessibility Abstract method Abstraction (computer science) Access control Access...

In object-oriented programming languages with garbage collection, object resurrection occurs when an object becomes reachable (in other words, no longer...

Computer Science (shortened to AP Comp Sci or APCS) program includes two Advanced Placement courses and examinations covering the field of computer science...