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public and private variable
'''JavaScript''' is a [[programming language]] used for [[website|web]] development. While it is primarily used as a scripting language, it has some [[object-oriented]] features.<ref>[http://mckoss.com/jscript/object.htm Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript] - Mike Koss</ref>
'''JavaScript''' is a [[programming language]] used for [[website|web]] development. While it is primarily used as a scripting language, it has some [[object-oriented]] features.<ref>[http://mckoss.com/jscript/object.htm Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript] - Mike Koss</ref>
==Lessons in scope==
There are two sets of variables associated with any object you define in JavaScript.
The first set of variables defined with the <code>this</code> keyword, are all public. The second set of variables, defined with the <code>var</code> keyword, are private. You can even use the same name for a public and private variable, and JavaScript can tell them apart.
===Accessing public and private variables===
Use regular dot notation to get the public variables of an object
* shape.size
Within class functions, use this to get a public variable, and '''omit''' to get a private variable!
==Notes==
==Notes==