The purpose of this class is to introduce to the student:

• The purpose and use of async/await
• What is Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is and how it's applied to JavaScript
• How to use ES6 classes

FIRST HALF (12.00 - 13.30)

• It's an upgrade to Promises
• Makes writing an asynchronous function more readable

• It's a programming style; it defines how to organise your application
• In OOP each program would be split up into self-contained objects, that then communicate with each other
• Each object represents a part of the application: it contains its own data and logic
• OOP is meant to make thinking about your applications easier, by having each object represent a real-life entity (i.e. Users, Profiles, Products)

SECOND HALF (14.00 - 16.00)

• classes are a modern way of creating objects in JavaScript
• It's syntactical sugar for object constructors
• A class is a blueprint of an object, that can be instantiated