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Asked: 2026-05-13T00:39:57+00:00

So I know a bit of C, trying to jump into ObjC for Max

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So I know a bit of C, trying to jump into ObjC for Max apps. Trying to figure out the terms and just needed a guru to humor me.

So an object could be thought of as a house that holds operations and data together.

But there may be many different objects of the same kind, called an instance. This could be thought of as a trailer park (manufactured home community) with a bunch of object homes. Not sure how to give an example of a type however.

Following same example, the methods would be the way the data in the house is manipulated?

Trying to figure these definitions out in a very simple example for my brain 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    It sounds more like you need some education on Object Oriented Programming in general rather than Objective-C specifically. Do some googling for general OOP references. Here’s some basics referring to your specific question:

    Object: A general term for a combination of data and related operations
    Class: A specific definition of an object, i.e. NSController
    Instance: A specific object created from a Class definition

    So, I could have an object Controller1, that is an instance of the NSController class. This could be referred to as an “NSController object” or an instance of “NSController”.

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