week1 fundamentals recap

What is a class?

an extensible program-code-template for creating objects, providing initial values for state (member variables) and implementations of behavior (member functions or methods)

What is an object?

"object" refers to a particular instance of a class where the object can be a combination of variables, functions, and data structures.

What is a method?

is a procedure associated with a message and an object

What is a message?

the way that one program object requests an action from another object.

What is inheritance?

an object or class is based on another object (prototypal inheritance) or class (class-based inheritance), acquires all the properties and behaviours of the parent object using the same implementation

what is encapsulation

the bundling of data with the methods that operate on that data. Encapsulation is used to hide the values or state of a structured data object inside a class, preventing unauthorized parties' direct access to them.