I'm new to JavaScript and I have some questions about Methods, Events, Objects, and Properties.

As Victor mentions, the courses here on Treehouse are a great place to start. Additionally, if you're looking for a book that will give you simpler, more basic examples and clearer definitions, check out Head First JavaScript Programming from O'Reilly Media. Their Head First series is fantastic, and gives great examples, definitions, uses a lot of images, quizzes, puzzles, project ideas, etc. to really help you cement things in your head.

As far as a quick rundown of these concepts, though (very high level), see below:

You can think of an OBJECT as just that: any real world object. For this example, let's say our object is an animal. Now, as you now, animals have many different distinct features, and (depending on the animal) they can perform any number of activities. Those features of the animal are its PROPERTIES, and the activities that it can perform are its METHODS. If you're familiar with a FUNCTION at all, you can realize that a method is simply a function that belongs specifically to an object.

So, let's take a look at an example of our animal object (which is just a collection of properties and methods):

// "cat" is the name of our animal object
var cat = {
    // inside of our "cat" object, we see it has a few properties that define who/what it is, in this case name, age, fur color, and what his status is
    name: "Whiskers",
    age: 4,
    furColor: "black",
    status = "awake",

    // we also see that this cat knows how to meow and how to sleep; these are its methods, or the activities that it can perform
    meow: function() {
        // this alert statement would pop up a JavaScript alert box that would say "Hello, my name is Whiskers." inside of it)
        alert("Hello, my name is " + this.name + ".");
    },

    sleep: function() {
        // this function would set the value of Whiskers' "status" variable equal to "asleep"
        this.status = "asleep";
    }
}

So, if someone wanted to know some information about this cat object, you would simply let them know by calling the property that said person was interested in. Say they wanted to know your cat's name? You would write the following:

// this would output "My cat's name is Whiskers.", by calling the "name" property of the "cat" object
alert("My cat's name is " + cat.name + ".");

If they wanted to know what color fur Whiskers has?

// this would output "Whiskers has black fur.", by calling the "furColor" property of the "cat" object (as well as getting his name at the beginning of it)
alert(cat.name + " has " + cat.furColor + " fur.");

And if they wanted to know how old he was, and if he was awake?

// this would output "Whiskers is 4 years old and is currently awake."
alert(cat.name + " is " + cat.age + " years old and is currently " + cat.status + ".");

Now, if you wanted to your cat to tell people his name on his own, you would simply call the method that he has (i.e. the activity that he knows how to perform) to make him do just that:

// this would create a JavaScript alert that would read "Hello, my name is Whiskers.", because that's what we defined inside the "meow" method
cat.meow();

And if you wanted Whiskers to go to sleep, you would make that happen by calling his "sleep" method:

// this would set the cat's "status" property equal to the value of "asleep", because that's what we defined inside the "sleep" method
cat.sleep();

The syntax make look odd if you're unfamiliar with programming languages, but hopefully this helps to give you a slightly better picture of what these different terms mean. Just remember that an object can be thought to represent an actual object, and the qualities of that object are its properties, and its abilities or activities that it can perform are its methods.

An event is when the user does something in the environment, like clicking their mouse, scrolling the page, or pressing a key on their keyboard.

Hope this helps!

Happy coding!

Erik