Classes, Objects, and Methods

学习Obj-C时候看书看到的一个能帮助很好地理解OOP中Class，Object和 Methods 概念的段落。

Consider an example from everyday life. Let’s assume that you own a car, which is obviously an object, and one that you own. You don’t have just any car; you have a particular car that was manufactured in a factory, maybe in Detroit, maybe in Japan, or maybe someplace else. Your car has a vehicle identification number (VIN) that uniquely identifies that car here in the United States.

In object-oriented parlance, your particular car is an instance of a car. Continuing with the terminology, car is the name of the class from which this instance was created. So each time a new car is manufactured, a new instance from the class of cars is created, and each instance of the car is referred to as an object.

Your car might be silver, have a black interior, be a convertible or hardtop, and so on. In addi- tion, you perform certain actions with your car. For example, you drive your car, fill it with gas, (hopefully) wash it, take it in for service, and so on.

—-Stephen G. Kochan, Programming in Objective-C - 6th Edition

例子：汽车

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车有好多种，丰田、大众、宝马、奔驰…
car就是一个class，丰田宝马等不同牌子的车就是car类的实例 instance。每个实例就是一个object。