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OOP

OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) is an approach in programming in which data is encapsulated within objects and the object itself is operated on, rather than its component parts. JavaScript is heavily object-oriented. It follows a prototype -based model, but it also offers a class syntax to enable typical OOP paradigms.

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