The document provides a history of object-oriented programming languages and their features. It traces the evolution of object-oriented languages from Simula in 1960 to Java in 1995. It describes the key aspects of object-oriented programming including its bottom-up design approach organized around objects and classes, with a focus on data and methods that operate on object data and allow interaction between objects. Features like inheritance and polymorphism provide reusability. The document also compares procedural programming in C to object-oriented programming in C++, highlighting how C++ supports encapsulation of data and functions into objects with access specifiers and other OOP features like overloading.