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Data Encapsulation & As

The document discusses access specifiers, data abstraction, and encapsulation in programming. It explains how access specifiers control the visibility of class members, with common types being private, public, default, and protected, and emphasizes their role in implementing encapsulation and abstraction. Additionally, it clarifies the significance of the main() method being public, static, and void in Java.

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Data Encapsulation & As

The document discusses access specifiers, data abstraction, and encapsulation in programming. It explains how access specifiers control the visibility of class members, with common types being private, public, default, and protected, and emphasizes their role in implementing encapsulation and abstraction. Additionally, it clarifies the significance of the main() method being public, static, and void in Java.

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 Access Specifiers

 Data Abstraction

 Encapsulation
 Access Specifiers

It allows us to restrict the scope or visibility of a package, class, constructor,


methods, variables, or other data members.

By using access specifiers, we define how the members (attributes and


methods) of a class can be accessed.

The most common access specifiers are following.


 Private
 Public
 Default
 Protected
Access specifiers help implement:

• Encapsulation by hiding implementation-level details in a class


• Abstraction by exposing only the interface of the class to the
external world

The private access specifier is generally used to encapsulate or hide


the member data in the class

The public access specifier is used to expose the member functions as


interfaces to the outside world
 Data Abstraction

• Abstraction denotes essential characteristics of an object that distinguish it


from all other kinds of objects.
• It is the process of hiding certain details and showing only essential
information to the user.

Faculty- Emp. id
Student- Reg. No

For a Doctor  Patient


Name, Age, Old medical records
For a Teacher  Student
Name, Roll Number/RegNo, Education background
 The whole idea behind encapsulation is to hide the implementation details
from users.

 If a data member is private it means it can only be accessed within the same
class. No outside class can access private data member (variable) of other
class.

 Data can only be accessed by public methods thus making the private fields
and their implementation hidden for outside classes.

 That’s why encapsulation is known as data hiding.


Why main() method is public, static and void in java ?

public : “public” is an access specifier which can be used outside the class. When main
method is declared public it means it can be used outside class.

static : To call a method we require object. Sometimes it may be required to call a method
without the help of object. Then we declare that method as static. JVM calls the main()
method without creating object by declaring keyword static.

void : void return type is used when a method doesn't return any value . main() method
doesn’t return any value, so main() is declared as void.

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