HOOPLA! — 'Hooray for Object Oriented Programming Languages!' — was a periodical published by OOPSTAD

OOPSTAD

OOPSTAD was the Object Oriented Programming For Smalltalk Application Developers Association. It published the periodical HOOPLA!...

. It was one of the first publications entirely devoted to Object-Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming

Object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm using "objects" – data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions – to design applications and computer programs. Programming techniques may include features such as data abstraction,...

 techniques and the Smalltalk

Smalltalk

Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist...

 programming language.

The first issue of HOOPLA! was available at OOPSLA-87; 1000 copies were printed. The subsequent issues were:

Volume 1, No.2	January 1988
Volume 1, No.3	April 1988
Volume 1, No.4	July 1988
Volume 2, No.1	November 1988
Volume 2, No.2	February 1989
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