There are multiple different crafts, such as knitting, weaving, or crocheting, in which you could create a fabric. Regardless of which craft you choose, you want to do the same thing: create fabric. If we were to model that programmatically, we would take advantage of polymorphism.

Inheritance supports reusability in programming. To write an application that prints a plant's care instruction cards for the garden center, we can use inheritance to share the code that prints the instructions.

Using a remote control for your TV is an abstraction. You push a button and a thing happens. And you only have a few buttons to choose from.

The first principle of object-oriented programming is encapsulation. Encapsulation is when you "hide" an object's state from other objects.

If you're a big Harry Potter fan, you probably enjoyed the Triwizard Maze. When racing through the maze, the competitors were faced with decisions about which path to take. Modeling these choices can be done using a tree data structure.

Waiting in a line—or as the British call it, “queueing”—is a literal visualization of a queue data structure. The first person in line is the first person who gets whatever they’re waiting for and leaves the line.

When you fill a PEZ dispenser, you push the candy from the top down. When you eat the candy, you pop a piece off the top of the literal stack of pieces. A stack data structure behaves the same way.

A scavenger hunt is a physical representation of a linked list. A linked list is a data structure characterized by sequential data access and no random access.

Recursion has a reputation in computer science of being intimidating but what is it exactly? Russian nesting dolls are a great metaphor for recursion so let's use them as an example to break it down in an easy-to-understand way.

Venn diagrams are a great way to think about set theory. In this post, we'll use Venn diagrams to see how our Instagram feed would change based on various set theory operations.