What is an Object?

An object is a representation of a type that holds data and allows operations to be performed on it self. An Object lets us describe our concept, type or idea in terms of data and methods.

Thus becomes a basis for a modular analysis of our problem. The whole problem and solution domain can be represented in terms of objects; objects can interact with themselves producing results. Read the answer to the question a What is Class? To understand objects better.

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