Understanding classes

Let's say you want to store the following:

• Individual employee information for a company
• Items for sale at an e-commerce site
• Date on the toys belonging to your children

You would use a class for this.

A class groups together variables or constants used to represent an object. Variables or constants associated with a class are called properties.

A class can also contain functions that perform specific tasks. Functions associated with a class are called methods.

Once you have a class, you can create instances of that class. Imagine you are creating an app for a zoo. If you have an Animal class, you can use instances of that class to represent animals at the zoo. Each of these instances will have different property values.

Here's what a class declaration looks like:

class className {
   property1
    property2
    property3
    method1() {
    code...