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Encapsulation

Explore how encapsulation hides data within C++ classes by using private variables and public getter and setter methods. Learn to design interfaces that control access to class members, making your code easier to maintain and modify.

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A Real Life Example

For the sake of explanation, we’ll start off by creating a simple movie class which contains three members:

C++
class Movie{
  string title;
  int year;
  string genre;
  public:
  Movie(){
    title = "";
    year = -1;
    genre = "";
  }
  Movie(string t, int y, string g){
    title = t;
    year = y;
    genre = g;
  }
};

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