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Alex Watts
8,396 PointsObject Oriented Programming?
Hello,
What is Object Orientated Programming? Is there any outstanding books that I can read to help me grasp this concept. I need it explained at its simplest!
Thanks :)
5 Answers
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 PointsObject-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming language model organized around objects rather than "actions" and data rather than logic.
Alex Watts
8,396 PointsThanks Cindy, could you explain what an object is and an action. I get confused.
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsObject Oriented Programming (OOP) is very useful when you want to define real-life nouns, such as a dog has the functions "play" and "bark", and the variables "name" and "owner". OOP can group those together, which is very handy.
Alex Watts
8,396 PointsAs HTML is not a programming language how can it have an object like the DOM?
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsThe DOM is something totally different. The DOM is a JavaScript thing that can manipulate HTML elements.
Alex Watts
8,396 PointsHow does JavaScript use objects? Sorry, I am bombarding you with questions.
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsLook at the Treehouse JavaScript course for that. You can learn all about it