> OOP is actually falling out of favor as a successful way to express models. Make sure you investigate alternatives to OOP (functional, procedural etc). As a g

> OOP is actually falling out of favor as a successful way to express models. Make sure you investigate alternatives to OOP (functional, procedural etc). As a graduate of OOP myself, it's interesting and exciting to approach different paradigms. Experience tells me that the best practices obsess over what things "do" rather than what things "are" (which is a fluffy concept at best). This is like saying: "Noun-based writing is falling out of favor as a successful way to express stories. Experience tells me that the best practices obsess over what things "do" rather than what things "are" (which is a fluffy concept at best)." If a writer didn't use verbs and nouns when appropriate, nobody would read their writing. You would consider such a writer to be almost illiterate. Of course it's useful for a writer to experiment with focusing on verbs or nouns, and there are situations where one may be so much more useful that the writer should eschew the other entirely. But a dogmatic approach that tries to eliminate all of one or the other universally is bound to lead to bad writing. And the same goes for coding. Focusing dogmatically on one methodology is only going to limit what you can do.