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I feel that the content in the Organizing Your JavaScript Code section of the curriculum rushes into all sorts of fancy ways to create objects, inherit methods, and encapsulate code, without ever giving very clear explanations or examples of why we're doing it and how it's all that useful in the first place.

I think a good place to start addressing it might be in the Object and Object Constructors lesson.

Things I think could be improved:

• The "Objects as a design pattern" section of this lesson really just shows a simple example of how objects are commonly used to group related data. While I think do think this is probably a useful reminder coming in, I think it would be helpful to learners to also start introducing the idea/importance of grouping related functionality into an object as well by adding methods and using the this keyword. A nice little example might be creating an object literal with a simple Rock Paper Scissors interface on it.

Though, I honestly feel it might be nice to have a dedicated lesson previous to this one on the topic, and adding additional resources on the idea that meets learners at their level, if anyone has good resources. That might require a bit of restructuring of the Objects and Object Constructors lesson, though.

I'm very open to working on this, sharing my ideas, and discussing what could be done further. I really do feel a lot of learners are struggling with understanding the point of the content here. I previously got the Building A House From The Inside Out article added to the Tic Tac Toe lesson, and I think that's helped a lot of learners, but I think there's more we could do here.

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Node / JS

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The first couple lessons of the Organizing Your JS Code section

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