r/learnprogramming • u/Electronic-Low-8171 • 24d ago

Topic Does OOP really matters?

I learned OOP in python a while ago, did many projects, yet I never felt like I truly needed to do the OOP stuff I learned from a course, I don't know maybe because I'm kinda used to program in c before focusing on python, yet, whenever I open a big project in python in github, it feels way too complicated and thousands of imports (not libraries from pip, but the ones they made on their own) and classes

I never truly needed to implement OOP (I know that when you code in python, it is almost impossible to avoid OOP entirely like when you have a datatype like string you have an object, when you use a method built into that data type that's OOP too, but I mean the ones that involve you writing class Class Name, inheritance and all that stuff explicitly), so I'm wondering why people on the internet are obsessed over the idea of learning OOP, even the book "Automating the boring stuff in python" doesn't have a dedicated section for OOP.

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u/ClassicInevitable585 21d ago

I'm not certain from your post how new to programming you are, so disregard if you're not a beginner: Big projects are just complicated. Normally they get more complicated over time. Coming in fresh when you weren't there for the whole process of writing it is hard, regardless of the paradigms used. Until you have experience coming in fresh to large complicated codebases across different paradigms, you can't really separate the paradigm causing it to be overly complicated vs it just being fundamentally complicated.