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JavaScript Object-Oriented JavaScript (2015) Practice Project User Interface Code

Alex Flores
Alex Flores
7,864 Points
Posted by Alex Flores
Alex Flores
7,864 Points

Having a tough time keeping up with all of the object passing... please help

I'm doing the object-oriented javascript module and I just finished making a quiz and it's got me disoriented. I tried it myself and couldn't get my code to work. I had something very, very different from what Andrew had.

When I read the code, I understand it just fine. It's kind of a pain trying to follow the flow of logic from function to function and trying to understand what object "this" is referring to, but I'm able to do it and the code makes complete sense to me. What I'm having a problem doing is, creating the code. I don't know what I'm asking here, but if anyone has any tips or pointers, I'd really appreciate it, because I'm feeling quite inadequate at this point..............

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

It helped me to think of an "object" as a box. The box can contain variables (properties) and/or functions (methods).

Of course, you can have more than one of a certain kind of box. The word "this" just refers to "this particular box".

Does that help?

Alex Flores
Alex Flores
7,864 Points
Alex Flores
Alex Flores
7,864 Points

ha not really. I actually understand that all very well - I think. I guess it's my planning skills that really stink, because when I'm writing this code, I just don't think of everything that I need to make the code work the way I want it to... I don't know if that makes sense.

I don't know, maybe it'll just take a lot of practice to think, but I feel like there should be some planning methodology commonly employed, but I haven't seen anything.