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JavaScript

Posted by Peter Ramos
Peter Ramos
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Is there a reason that the names of constructor functions seem to always be capitalized?

So far in JavaScript we have used camel case ...ex) camelCase ... when naming things. I've noticed in this course that all the constructor functions have been named starting with a capital letter. In addition in the "Object.create" method the word "object" is also capitalized. This is a little confusing and I was just wondering if there was a reason for this? Thanks!

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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! I might suggest taking a peek at the coding style/naming conventions in this MDN documentation. JavaScript uses upper camelCase to denote a JavaScript object. This is also a pretty typical convention among other languages such as C# and Swift when denoting a class. It is not limited to just JavaScript.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Peter Ramos
Peter Ramos
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Thanks this helps a lot! Been searching for something like this!