It makes it more difficult for a beginner because it is yet another concept to learn when you are at a stage at which they are not yet comfortable with variable

It makes it more difficult for a beginner because it is yet another concept to learn when you are at a stage at which they are not yet comfortable with variables and loops. It's also a pretty vague concept where different languages and different developers have different ideas about how objects should work. I find that it only really makes sense from a code structure point of view once you have got to programs that are significantly bigger than the average beginner is likely to be writing. Even as somebody who understands OO I don't tend to use it for programs that are less than at least a few thousand LOC because I find that it just gets in the way.