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Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming
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Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming

by Andrea Chiarelli, Lyubomyr Rudko
June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
292 pages
6h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2. Diving into OOP Principles

In the previous chapter, we introduced objects and their basic use in JavaScript. We have seen that objects have a key role in the language, but many developers consider JavaScript's approach to object management simple compared with the object management of Java, C#, and other OOP languages.

In fact, a common misunderstanding concerns the Object-Oriented nature of JavaScript. Many developers do not consider JavaScript as a true Object-Oriented language, but just a language with an outlandish use of objects.

In this chapter, we will discuss  the OOP nature of JavaScript by showing that it complies with the OOP principles. It also will explain the main differences with classical OOP. The following topics will ...

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