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prasannakulkarni2
14,918 PointsWhy are we making a new instance of the class 'PezDispenser' called dispenser? Why not use the PezDispenser directly?
or is there any benifits of using the instances?
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Stone Preston
42,016 PointsWhat if we wanted to make several different PezDispensers?
Classes act as a general blueprint of what an object should look like. Then, by creating instances of that class, we can create non-general objects of that class with attributes that are unique to each object
We could have a Darth Vader pez dispenser, a Luke Skywalker pez dispenser and a Han Solo pez dispenser. They all share the same properties and methods of the PezDispenser class, but they are each different instances with different values for their properties. They are unique, and by creating each one as a new instance of Pez dispenser, we can treat them as such.
Besides that, the methods and properties defined in the PezDispenser class are instance methods and properties. This means they act on instances of a class, not the class itself. In order to just use the class without ever creating an instance we would have to make the methods and properties static
prasannakulkarni2
14,918 PointsThat makes sense. Thanks Stone Preston !