# What is Object Oriented Programming (OOP)? Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/questions/5549/what-is-object-oriented-programming Source observed: 2026-11-05T00:24:11.265Z Last checked: 2026-11-05T00:24:11.265+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-07T03:45:33.518+00:00 --- # What is Object Oriented Programming (OOP)? We are Aced, formerly Exponent. This question page is part of our interview-preparation community and concerns object-oriented programming (OOP), a software-engineering concept. 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