can you summarize OO for me in 64 words or less?
thomasmallen: It's amazing that you've been able to spend four years coding without having to work on code that used object orientation. If you collaborate with others, you'll learn many useful as well as useless coding techniques and will be come a much better programmer yourself. So pick apart a few of your favorite open source projects; I'll bet you find plenty of practical object-oriented programming.^ 64 words.