have i made an object called Vegetable? or carrot?
Vegetable is a class which represents an object. but carrot looks like an object in output. Vegetable looks like a function. i fink.
(i passed the excercise, more or less copying, but i don’t understand this)
Well, they are all objects. In JS, any data that isn’t a primitive is some kind of an object.
More specifically, I would say that Vegetable is a class. Yes, technically it is an object (at least in JS). It is actually a function (a type of object in JS) that creates an object. It is syntactic sugar for the old JS object constructor (also a function so also an object).
“carrot” is an object. It is an instance of the class “Vegetable”.
So, in a more high-level sense, “Vegetable” is a class and “carrot” is an instance of that class, basically a “plain” object. (I hope I got all of that right.)
makes sense.
but but it still looks like i gave ‘name: carrot’ as a property of the object, ‘Vegetable’.
but i should consider Vegetable a ‘class’ and ‘carrot’ an object, as an instance?
also, are the other (instantiations?) i created seperate instances of the Vegetable class? i was trying to make them properties of carrot, but perhaps they are merely seperate instances of Vegetable?
(hope that question makes more sense to you than it does for me. I might have to come back to this when the swelling goes down a bit)
Yes, you gave the class a name property and gave it a string that matches the name of the variable that references it. You don’t have to do that - you just chose to do that. The instance doesn’t know or care that the name property matches the name of this variable that references it.
i was trying to make them properties of carrot, but perhaps they are merely seperate instances of Vegetable?
Yes, each instance of the class is a separate thing. They are like “children” of that class. They are individual siblings. They will have a similar structure of keys/properties, but the values/data in those are in no way connected.
(hope that question makes more sense to you than it does for me. I might have to come back to this when the swelling goes down a bit)
This is confusing stuff. Go easy on yourself. We all struggled with this at one time.