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How do you access modifiers restrict scope?

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How do you access modifiers restrict scope?

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- [Instructor] Different access modifiers determine where certain variables and methods can be accessed in your code. In other words, they allow you to restrict the scope of specific functionality in your program. Access modifiers are often asked about in Java interviews because they help make your programs more secure and maintainable. The three different access modifiers in Java are private, protected, and public. We use these keywords on pieces of a given class. Private variables and methods are only visible in the class that they live in. Protected variables and methods are visible to the package and all subclasses. Public members are accessible everywhere within the program. If no modifier is provided, it's only visible to the package it lives in. Let's take a look at some code and see how this works. We have a BankAccount class with some examples of variables and methods with access modifiers. Let's walk through each…

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