I have taken only one programming class, so I understood him to be talking about how one approaches writing this kind of script, using an intermediate step. I interpreted "object" as the cluster of code that results in something happening. Understanding what it is you're asking the code to do by first writing a sort of text diagram of how you are going to have write it. I found the use of Pseudo Code to be very useful intermediate exercise for planning out what I was trying to make the page do. In the programming class the instructor used it to teach us how to figure the steps we'd need when using a simple version of C+. It's actually an effective way to work out any number of problems, and not just computer related. A sort of linear Mind Map, if that makes any sense to you.
If this isn't the object in question, is there an easy way to explain how the word is being used here?