What's the difference between method, class, argument and object?

Mahvish,

A Class defines what an Object will look like; what attributes it will have. For example, you might define a "car" Class that has an attribute "doors" attribute, with the understanding that all cars have a number of doors.

class Car {
   int doors = 0;
}

A Method can be thought of as a verb related to the class. For example, a Car deploys airbags in a collision. So we would define a Method that tells the Car how and when to deploy safety measures.

class Car {
   int doors = 0;
   void deployAirbags(speed, impactZone) {
        if (speed > 20 and impactZone === 1) {
            // deploy
        }
    }
}

An argument is data that gets passed to a function to make it work. In this example the arguments are 'speed' and 'impactZone'.

An Object is where we instantiate the Class as an actual car.

Car hondaAccord = new Car();

Then we can call the 'deployAirbags' on our 'hondaAccord' Object.

hondaAccord.deployAirbags(25, 1);
}

I hope this helps clear things up for you.

Nate

Nathaniel McNeil, thanks so much for your response. Greatly appreciated. I'm going to keep re-reading it until it makes more and more sense to me. Also, what do you mean by " instantiate the Class"?

Nathaniel McNeil better :D this will take some time to absorb. I do have some additional​ questions if you don't mind me asking