In Javascript, put off object-oriented design until last to avoid complexity students don’t need.

  • Object-oriented programming is very complex, and students can accomplish everything they need to accomplish without it.
  • It’s much more important for students to realize you can reuse code with loops and functions, and sometimes you can get away with just an array.
    • Most of the things you’d want to do with objects you can do with arrays if you haven’t learned/taught objects yet.

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