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Let’s take a look at the world around us. There are many things we might see. A computer. A keyboard. A chair. A desk. If we look outside, we may even see more things. A tree. A bird. A cloud.

From a certain point of view, the entire world is made up of things, each with unique features and actions that help define how it differs from other things.

As we continue to write more and more complex programs, it would be very useful to have a way to represent these things in our own software. Thankfully, we can! In this chapter, we’ll learn all about classes and objects, which form the basis of the object-oriented programming paradigm, one of the most common and popular programming paradigms today.

Let’s get started!