OOP stands for Object-Oriented Programming.

Procedural programming is about writing procedures or methods that perform operations on the data, while object-oriented programming is about creating objects that contain both data and methods.

Object-oriented programming has several advantages over procedural programming:

• OOP is faster and easier to execute

• OOP provides a clear structure for the programs

• OOP helps to keep the Java code DRY "Don't Repeat Yourself", and makes the code easier to maintain, modify and debug

• OOP makes it possible to create fully reusable applications with less code and shorter development time