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About encapsulation

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About encapsulation

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- [Instructor] Java is an object-oriented language and one of the most important principles in object-oriented programming, is called encapsulation. It means that you're packaging complex functionality to make it easier to use. When you first create Java applications, most new programmers will put all of their code into a main method. But as your applications get larger and more complex, putting all of the code in one place, makes it very different to manage. So instead, you want to break the code out into individual classes, grouping the functionality as the logic dictates for your application and each of those classes, can do it's part of the job. Here's an analogy. Let's take a look at a non-encapsulated industrial machine. This is an olive press. In order to use this machine, if you were asked to know everything about how it worked, it might be different to get started. If you had to know which direction each gear was going to turn, which order each of the pressing arms was going…

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