what is a member vs. a property

Question

A friend who is new to OO programming asked me the difference between a Member and Property, and I was ashamed to admit that I couldn\'t give him a good answer. Since proper

Answer 1

Both properties and methods are members of an object. A property describes some aspect of the object while a method accesses or uses the owning object.
An example in pseudo-code:

Object Ball
Property color(some Value)
Method bounce(subroutine describing the movement of the Ball)

Where the ball is defined and given a color(property) while the method bounce is a subroutine that describes the how the ball will react on hitting another object.
Not all languages have properties, i.e. Java only has fields that must be accessed by getters and setters.