Overhearing first year software dev students argue that object oriented programming is pointless and makes no sense...
You're gonna have a bad time...

When you start learning OOP is really hard to understand the usefulness of it. That is until you development something using OPP. Then you can't go back.

They're gonna have a static time

I think that OOP still is overrated... It's still one of the best things we have of organizing code, but the underlying concepts often just dont work in reality

Well it clearly depends on when it's used and what language, I see no point in writing 15 lines of OOP code to replace a 3 line procedural code generally if I only need it for that single page at that single time and it's a so specific bug fix that I won't ever need it again in that project... But still people say that I have to OOP it and define that and that in that and that file using that and that name with a new instance of this and that and there...

Respectfully, a first year software student's opinion on almost anything is more or less irrelevant..

@swantzer Agreed unless you're a student. In the real world use the right tool for the job. Unfortunately small exercises in class have a hard time communicating the benefits of oop, but the patterns should still be taught.

I didn't understand the usefulness of OOP until I got into my java class, and we started exploring linked lists. Then it made so much more sense.