Classes and objects are the foundational building blocks to object-oriented programming, but are often confused with other data structures such as numbers and booleans. The JavaScript tutorial in Foundations of Programming Fundamentals covers the difference between objects and variables and discusses object instantiation and different object types.
The best way to start getting familiar with classes and objects is to begin by…using classes that are already defined in your language and just creating…objects from those built-in classes.…We can later define our own classes and create objects from those classes.…Now this sounds complex. It really isn't.…In fact, we've already done it.…So in JavaScript, when you make an array variable, you have made an object.…When you make a regular expression variable, you've made an object.…
These are both built-in objects in JavaScript.…Now on the other hand, when you make a variable that's a number or a…variable that's a Boolean, these are not objects. These are what can be…referred to as primitives.…Primitives really just store a value. That's it.…But as we've seen, when you have got an object, this is not just a…dumping ground for data.…When you have an array, you can ask things of it.…They have properties like length and they have methods.…We can ask them to sort themselves or reverse themselves.…
With regular expressions, we can call the test method on a regular expression…
Author
Simon Allardice
Released
9/22/2011Finally, the course compares how code is written in several different languages, the libraries and frameworks that have grown around them, and the reasons to choose each one.
- Writing source code
- Understanding compiled and interpreted languages
- Requesting input
- Working with numbers, characters, strings, and operators
- Writing conditional code
- Making the code modular
- Writing loops
- Finding patterns in strings
- Working with arrays and collections
- Adopting a programming style
- Reading and writing to various locations
- Debugging
- Managing memory usage
- Learning about other languages
Skill Level Beginner
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 13s
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1. Programming Basics
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What is programming?5m 45s
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Writing source code5m 34s
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2. Core Programming Syntax
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Why JavaScript?4m 45s
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Requesting input4m 50s
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3. Variables and Data Types
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Working with numbers5m 4s
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Working with operators4m 47s
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Properly using white space6m 46s
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4. Writing Conditional Code
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Setting comparison operators6m 59s
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5. Modular Code
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Breaking your code apart4m 1s
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Understanding variable scope2m 23s
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6. Iteration: Writing Loops
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Introduction to iteration4m 28s
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Writing a while statement5m 24s
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Creating a for loop3m 39s
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7. More About Strings
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8. Collections
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Working with arrays5m 46s
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Array behavior5m 29s
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9. Programming Style
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Programming style5m 55s
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Writing pseudocode4m 55s
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10. Input and Output
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Event driven programming7m 47s
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Introduction to file I/O6m 51s
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11. When Things Go Wrong
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Introduction to debugging5m 57s
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Understanding error messages3m 21s
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Using debuggers8m 2s
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12. Introduction to Object Orientation
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Using classes and objects6m 28s
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13. Advanced Topics
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14. Exploring the Languages
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Introduction to languages1m 42s
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C-based languages4m 40s
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The Java world3m 13s
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Ruby3m 4s
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Python2m 56s
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Objective-C4m 3s
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Libraries and frameworks3m 25s
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Conclusion
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Where to go from here1m 2s
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