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Let's create an object literal
to hold various pieces

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of information about a person.

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To follow along,
launch the workspace with this video or

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download the project files and
use your preferred text editor.

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Open the file object.js.

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This file is already linked to index.html.

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First, declare a variable named person,
and assign it a set of curly braces.

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These two curly braces
represent the object.

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Now we'll add several property
value pairs to the object.

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Let's start with the person's name.

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I'll indent this line, type the property
name, a colon, and the value.

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Now this person object has a name property
that's assigned the string value, Edward.

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I'll add another property by
typing a comma, and on a new line,

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write another property name, city, and
set its value to the string, New York.

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I've used two string values but you can
use any type of value, like a number or

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a Boolean.

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For example, I'll define an age
property and assign it the number 37.

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Then define a property named isStudent and
assign it the value true.

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You can also set the value of
an object's property to an array.

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For instance,
I'll define a new property named skills,

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and set its value to an array,

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holding the strings,
JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

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You can even set the value of
an object's property to a function.

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You won't be doing that in this course,
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you'll learn about it in a later course.

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Great, you've created a JavaScript object,
but how do you start using it?

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I'll teach you how in the next video.