Objects
Say we have a ball. A ball is an object. A ball has properties such as color, size, weight. You can have actions associated with the ball such as throwing, catching, kicking. You can have a bunch of balls with all the same actions but not all the same properties. The same is true with objects in programming. When we talk about objects in programming, they are modeled after real world objects. The pseudocode for creating a ball would be:
| OBJECT BALL ACTIONS: KICK THROW CATCH PROPERTIES: COLOR SIZE WEIGHTMAIN PROGRAMNEW BALLEND MAIN |
Notice that the NEW command tells everyone that you are creating a NEW BALL, and not using one that is already made. Objects can get confusing if you aren’t familiar with them and how they apply to programming, so let’s take an object that everyone should be familiar with.
The button has properties, or attributes to it such as background clor, text color, what the button says. This object only has one action though, push. You may come across programs with multiple objects that each have literally hundreds of actions.
