Quick and Easy Introduction to Object Oriented Programming with Python

To get into the topic of objects, properties, and behaviors, let's use Python classes as our guide. Let's unpack all of these affirmations with a simple example: Here I am simply creating a variable called name with a value Lucas, this variable is a reference to an object, in this case, the type of the object is a str because to create it we instantiated the Python built-in str class. Now, let's create a class called Person(), and another one called Motorcyle(), which will have respectively the properties (attributes): name and model. In this case, we created the Person() and Motorcycle() classes which have their names and model properties respectively, then we instantiated them, which means we created unique objects out of these classes (or types), in this case with the name "Lucas"and the model "Scooter X3000". We did that using what are known as constructors: __init__, methods used in Python to initialize data, these are methods called when we instantiate classes.