The concepts of structured and object-oriented programming methods are not relatively new butthese approaches are still very much useful and relevant in today’s programming paradigm. In this paper, wedistinguish the features of structured programs from that of object oriented programs. Structured programming is amethod of organizing and coding programs that can provide easy understanding and modification, whereas objectorientedprogramming (OOP) consists of a set of objects, which can vary dynamically, and which can execute byacting and reacting to each other, in much the same way that a real-world process proceeds (the interaction of realworldobjects). An object-oriented approach makes programs more intuitive to design, faster to develop, moreamenable to modifications, and easier to understand. With the traditional, procedural-oriented/structuredprogramming, a program describes a series of steps to be performed (an algorithm). In the object-oriented view ofprogramming, instead of programs consisting of sets of data loosely coupled to many different procedures, objectorientedprograms consist of software modules called objects that encapsulate both data and processing while hidingtheir inner complexities from programmers and hence from other objects.
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