What is an Object (1)
What is an Object (1)
- An object is informally defined as a tangible entity that exhibits some well-defined behavior
- a tangible and/or visible thing
- Trucks, buildings, computers, sensors, books, people
- something that may be apprehended intellectually
- something toward which thought or action is directed
- Bank account, transaction, array of integers, binary tree
- What isn’t an object
- Attributes: time, beauty, color
- Emotions: love, anger
- Verbs: play, rewind, increment, throw away