(WIP) Encapsulation: The Basics Every Junior Developer Needs to Know!  [draft]

Cascading Changes, Fewer Points of Contact Encapsulation is a fundamental principle of object-oriented programming (OOP) that helps control access and modification of data within a class. It involves hiding the implementation details of a class from external code and exposing only a public interface to interact with the class. This can help avoid cascading changes in a software system by limiting the number of points of contact between different parts of the code....

November 12, 2023 · 9 min · 1722 words · Me