6THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
Chapter 4 introduced JavaScript’s objects. In programming culture, we have a thing called object-oriented programming, a set of techniques that use objects (and related concepts) as the central principle of program organization.
Though no one really agrees on its precise definition, object-oriented programming has shaped the design of many programming languages, including JavaScript. This chapter will describe the way these ideas can be applied in JavaScript.
Encapsulation
The core idea in object-oriented programming is to divide programs into smaller pieces and make each piece responsible for managing its own state. This way, some knowledge about the way a piece of the program works can be kept local to that piece. ...
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