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In this computer science problem, which of the following should be declared as private?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop douceur brought to you by

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canoe jokes can new jokes or you kidding me Which

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of the following should be declared His private song name

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gets on name prince We're writing a class called paddling

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songs to keep track of a killer paddling playlist and

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we're being asked which bits should be declared private Well

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i don't want bring song name being that we're writing

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an access or method called get song name specifically teo

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get data from song name the string song name should

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indeed be private things like this A private variable is

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like your friends Your friend is overprotective of her kat

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so she doesn't let anyone see it or pet it

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However if you want your friend will bring the cat

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out of the house and let you see it pet

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It will bring the cat out whenever you ask her

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to just his access Her methods bring private variables out

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Julia item to get song name is our access or

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method Making it private would make it possible to access

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song ing item three hour print function Well it'll also

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needed to use definitely should not be driving That means

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only item one should be private and our answer will

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be a but wait why even use successor methods at

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all Couldn't we just make strings public Then we could

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read from them any Time from anywhere in the program

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without having a father with access or method Well that's

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true there's no law against it But doing things this

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way is the best practice gives us what's called an

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abstraction layer well imagine this You've written a huge programme

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and in various places throughout your accessing variables directly Well

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values were getting changed over here accessed over here Change

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down there it's bedlam way have mutate er methods so

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that users can't change data any which way they want

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you taters finally all the request to change data for

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one checkpoint and make sure users are not changing data

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in a bad way Blacks esther's you're just annoying repercussion

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of using mutated by making variables private and edited on

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ly through mu taters we essentially lock off all access

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to the variables Thus we need access er's toe let

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users get the values of the private variables Tons have

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overkill for a simple project where you keep track of

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a playlist well maybe but it's a good habit tohave

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And when your simple project balloons into an enterprise level

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canoe related media organizational solution well you'll be glad it's 00:02:27.51 --> [endTime] there

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