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JavaScript : Object-Oriented Programming
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JavaScript : Object-Oriented Programming

by Kumar Chetan Sharma et al
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
847 pages
17h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Object-oriented programming

Here's a quick table summarizing the object oriented programming concepts discussed in the previous module :

Feature

Illustrates concept

Bob is a man (an object).

Objects

Bob's date of birth is June 1, 1980, gender: male, and hair: black.

Properties

Bob can eat, sleep, drink, dream, talk, and calculate his own age.

Methods

Bob is an instance of the Programmer class.

Class (in classical OOP)

Bob is based on another object, called Programmer.

Prototype

(in prototypal OOP)

Bob holds data (such as birth_date) and methods that work with the data (such as calculateAge()).

Encapsulation

You don't need to know how the calculation method works internally. The object might have some private data, such as the number ...

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