This document provides an introduction to object-oriented programming concepts including abstraction, encapsulation, and inheritance. It defines abstraction as identifying an object's crucial behavior while eliminating irrelevant details. Encapsulation ties an object's state and behavior together, keeping them hidden from external code. Inheritance allows a new class to inherit behaviors from an existing parent class, expressing "is-a" relationships. Real-world objects have state represented by fields and behavior exposed through methods.
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