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Lets create a person in javascript. We could use a variable...

var person = "John Doe";

To print our persons name we could do...

var person = "John Doe";
console.log(person) // John Doe

Well a person has more than a name so lets add an age and eye color. We could make more variables...

var person = "John Doe";
var person_age = 50;
var person_eye_color = "Blue"; 

But our data is all individual variables and not grouped to make a person anymore. We could use an array...

var person = ["John Doe", 50, "Blue"]

To print our persons name, age, and eye color we could do...

var person = ["John Doe", 150, "Blue"]

console.log(person[0]) // John Doe

console.log(person[1]) // 150

console.log(person[2]) // Blue

Ok, now lets print a sentence with our person in it like we might do on a webpage, maybe a profile.

var person = ["John Doe", 150, "Blue"]

console.log("The great" + person[0] + ", with striking " + person[2] + " eyes, was a spry " + person[1] + " years old.");

There are other qualities we might want to add to describe our person like maybe species, number of legs, and number of arms. We could do…

var person = ["John Doe", 150, "Blue", "Human", 2, 2]

Ok, now lets print a sentence with our person in it like we might do on a webpage again.

var person = ["John Doe", 150, "Blue", "Human", 2, 2]

console.log("The great" + person[0] + ", with striking " + person[2] + " eyes, was a spry " + person[1] + " years old. A " + person[3] + "with " + person[4) + "legs and " + person[5] + " arms.");

Yikes, that doesnt look very readable. It seems like we should use an object to organize our data better. Lets create a person object and we might as well also separate the first and last name too.

var person = {
     species: "human",
     legs: 2,
     arms: 2,
     firstName: "John",
     lastName: "Doe",
     age: 150,
     eyeColor: "Blue"
};

Now when we write our sentence again, it is much easier to read!

var person1 = {
     species: "human",
     legs: 2,
     arms: 2,
     firstName: "John",
     lastName: "Doe",
     age: 150,
     eyeColor: "Blue"
};

console.log("The great" + person1.firstName + " " + person1.lastName + ", with striking " + person1.eyeColor + " eyes, was a spry " + person1.age + " years old. A " + person1.species + "with " + person1.legs + "legs and " + person1.arms + " arms.");

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Assignment

1. Add a property to the person object called favoriteBands that is an array made up of band names
2. Add a property to the person object called familyMembers that is an array made up of these people objects

var person2 = {
     species: "human",
     legs: 2,
     arms: 2,
     firstName: "Stacy",
     lastName: "Doe",
     age: 180,
     eyeColor: "Orange"
};
var person3 = {
     species: "human",
     legs: 2,
     arms: 2,
     firstName: "Suzy",
     lastName: "Q",
     age: 140,
     eyeColor: "Green"
};

3. Add a property to each of the new familyMembers that is called familyRole that is either "brother", "sister", etc.

SPOILER ALERT

1. Add a property to the person object called favoriteBands that is an array made up of band names

var person1 = {
     species: "human",
     legs: 2,
     arms: 2,
     firstName: "John",
     lastName: "Doe",
     age: 150,
     eyeColor: "Blue",
     favoriteBands: ["Creed", "Creed", "Creed", "Creed"]
};