CYB 135 Wk 1 – Practice: Reading

Accurately complete all reading, Challenge Activities, and Participation Activities to receive full points for this practice. You have unlimited attempts. The points you see in zyBooks do not reflect the points you receive in the gradebook

The physical world is made up of material items such as wood, metal, plastic, fabric, etc. To keep the world understandable, people think in terms of higher-level objects, like chairs, tables, and TVs. Those objects are groupings of the lower-level items.

Likewise, a program is made up of lower-level items like variables and functions. To keep programs understandable, programmers often deal with higher-level groupings of those items, known as objects. In programming, an object is a grouping of data (variables) and operations that can be performed on that data (functions or methods).