It's a shame that people get taught the opposite of that approach. Typical academic OO ends up completely obscurring the data you have and how you transform it

It's a shame that people get taught the opposite of that approach. Typical academic OO ends up completely obscurring the data you have and how you transform it in to what you want. Many times when you ask a student to think in those terms they don't even understand the concept of putting all your data in a data structure that is meant to access it instead of being muddied together with little bits of execution that may or may not accomplish something.