What are objects and classes?

• An object is a piece of running software with its own “values” and “behavior”

  • flight would have values and behavior???

• A class is a description that applies to each of some similar set of objects

• A class is ultimately where you write the code that establishes for the class and thus the objects of that class:

  • interface
  • internals
  • relationship to other objects

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