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Object-Oriented JavaScript - Second Edition

You're reading from   Object-Oriented JavaScript - Second Edition If you've limited or no experience with JavaScript, this book will put you on the road to being an expert. A wonderfully compiled introduction to objects in JavaScript, it teaches through examples and practical play.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693127
Length 382 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Object-oriented JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 2. Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions 3. Functions 4. Objects 5. Prototype 6. Inheritance 7. The Browser Environment 8. Coding and Design Patterns A. Reserved Words B. Built-in Functions
C. Built-in Objects D. Regular Expressions
Index

OOP summary

Here's a quick table summarizing the concepts discussed so far:

Feature

Illustrates concept

Bob is a man (an object).

Objects

Bob's date of birth is June 1, 1980, gender: male, and hair: black.

Properties

Bob can eat, sleep, drink, dream, talk, and calculate his own age.

Methods

Bob is an instance of the Programmer class.

Class (in classical OOP)

Bob is based on another object, called Programmer.

Prototype

(in prototypal OOP)

Bob holds data (such as birth_date) and methods that work with the data (such as calculateAge()).

Encapsulation

You don't need to know how the calculation method works internally. The object might have some private data, such as the number of days in February in a leap year. You don't know, nor do you want to know.

Information hiding

Bob is part of a WebDevTeam object, together with Jill, a Designer object, and Jack, a ProjectManager object.

Aggregation and composition

Designer, ProjectManager, and Programmer are all based on and extend a Person object.

Inheritance

You can call the methods Bob.talk(), Jill.talk(), and Jack.talk() and they'll all work fine, albeit producing different results (Bob will probably talk more about performance, Jill about beauty, and Jack about deadlines). Each object inherited the method talk from Person and customized it.

Polymorphism and method overriding

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Published in: Jul 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849693127
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