Simple Objects
Programmers refer to things as objects. Anything that we can touch or talk about in the real world can be described as an object in the computer world. Consider movies, for instance. I think we can all agree that Star Wars is the greatest movie of all time. Right? Well, here we describe Star Wars as a JavaScript object:
| | var best_movie = { |
| | title: 'Star Wars', |
| | year: 1977 |
| | }; |
Even though it’s short, there’s a lot going on in that example. First of all, we see that JavaScript has another use for curly braces other than just wrapping function definitions and if statements. Curly braces can also wrap JavaScript objects. Additionally, we see that JavaScript objects are just like numbers and strings—they can be assigned to a ...
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