by GUARD!AN on Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:57 am
No offense bob, I think you just made it even more confusing for him...
What I usually tell noobs is:
A class is the recipe you have for a cake. The final cake you have when you are done is the object.
The final cake (AKA object) has everything the recipe told you the cake needed to have in it (the ingredients AKA the data) and the instructions for making the cake (the methods).
It is somewhat alarming that you don't seem to realize that actionscript IS javascript (it's a superset), and the original post seemed to imply that being bilingual would mean you are more likely to be good at computer languages...
The problem is clearly that you don't understand the concepts. I think you are spending too much time focusing on the syntax and code, and not on the concepts of computer science (look up encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, etc)
GUARD!AN
–noun
1. guarding; protecting: a guardian deity.
2. a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind
speeds of or in excess of 72 mph (32 m/sec).
3. (in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating
from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of
the universe.
4. a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness,
extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
5. The sensation and muscular spasm caused by an electric current passing
through the body or a body part.