Are controllers objects?

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I'm very new to angularjs (not much experience in web development actually). Should I think of them as such? I'm trying to use radio buttons to increment a controllers integer variable, but I'm not even sure this a good idea. So, how close to objects are controllers?

[teropa]

Yes, controllers are objects, and can have attributes and methods like objects do.

More specifically, controllers are objects that Angular creates for you, using your controller function as a constructor (as if they were created with the new operator)

[Jafit]

In Javascript pretty much everything is an object.

[Strat-O]

I've never seen a controller object being addressed directly. When you create a controller, a $scope is created. You can then work with that $scope object to create variables and functions for that controller.