
Why Teaching OOP to Beginners is Like Giving a Chainsaw to a Toddler
Picture this: You’re trying to teach someone to make scrambled eggs. Instead of starting with a frying pan, you hand them a molecular gastronomy kit with sixteen types of emulsifiers and a sous-vide machine. That’s exactly what we’re doing when we throw object-oriented programming at coding newbies. Let’s dissect this educational travesty with the urgency it deserves. The OOP Onion: Too Many Layers for Day One When I first encountered OOP, I spent three days trying to understand why my Cat class kept inheriting from Animal but refused to eat the Food interface....