The document provides an introduction to object-oriented programming (OOP) principles including encapsulation, abstraction, polymorphism, and inheritance. It explains these concepts through examples like a BankAccount class with methods to access the balance. Encapsulation bundles data and methods into objects. Abstraction hides implementation details and exposes only functionality. Polymorphism allows one entity to have multiple behaviors. Inheritance allows child classes to extend parent classes for reusability. OOP provides benefits like better planning, high maintainability, reusability, and reduced complexity.