If you ask an OOP guru what an OOP language is, you will probably hear him/her utter words such as class, interface, information hiding, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, etc. Those sound cool, don't they? OOP, however, is a topic that is not too easy to master in a day or two or by just attending a lecture. To truly understand it, you need to know the theory as well as do some OOP coding practice. This article offers readers just getting into OOP the very basics of OOP, using VB.NET as the language. It is not a complete reference, but it is something to start with.