What Is An Object, Anyway?

The ambiguous core of Object-Orientated software development.

This is an object…right? Photo by Mike Dorner on Unsplash

I remember taking my first programming course in High School. We learned the ropes of Java, an object-orientated programming language. This means it leverages objects to write programs.

But what exactly is an object? Well, Java’s official documentation says it is a bike (I am going to be referencing this a lot, please read it) and…