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Dylan Buckley
2,243 PointsWhat is a "Class"?
Hey All. The videos have started talking about "classes" quite a bit in the first video on Objective-C, talking about how the class is split amongst the .m and .h files. Can someone please define what they mean by "Class" Thanks!
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Enara L. Otaegi
13,107 PointsEvery single teacher I've had, explained this with the same example. Imagine you have a car, a car has many properties like wheels or engine and methods like starting the car. But there are cars that have different properties and different methods. So we create another class, for example BMW. It is still a car, and inherits from this class but it has other properties just for itself. In Objective-C we have NSObject, that would be the car from this example, and NSString, a class that inherits from NSObject that describes the behavior and properties common to a particular type of object, strings.
This is just an example for understanding the concept but I hope you find it useful.
Dylan Buckley
2,243 PointsThank you so much Enara L. Otaegi !