Object Oriented Programming

As a novice programmer and as someone who started learning programming with C, OOP just seems annoying to me. Seems as though it's easier to accomplish the same tasks without it. Is it actually necessary to learn it?

>>13
One could argue that you are doing "OOP", just on a module level.

As for >>1,
Is it actually necessary to learn it?
As with everything, that is up to you, but this sounds like a plea to justify your laziness. It is always better to try it out and get your own informed opinion, than to remain an ignorant parrot.