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Geters&seters

The document explains the concepts of getters and setters in programming, which are methods used to retrieve and update private fields, respectively. It provides an example of a 'Person' class with a private field 'name' and demonstrates the implementation of a getter and setter for that field. The 'Main' class shows how to create an instance of 'Person', set the name, and retrieve it using the defined methods.

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Geters&seters

The document explains the concepts of getters and setters in programming, which are methods used to retrieve and update private fields, respectively. It provides an example of a 'Person' class with a private field 'name' and demonstrates the implementation of a getter and setter for that field. The 'Main' class shows how to create an instance of 'Person', set the name, and retrieve it using the defined methods.

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Getters:

Methods that retrieve (or "get") the value of a private field.


Typically prefixed with get followed by the field name in camel case.

Setters:
Methods that update (or "set") the value of a private field.
Usually prefixed with set followed by the field name in camel case.

class Person {
private String name; // Private field

// Getter method
public String getName() {
return name;
}

// Setter method
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}

public class Main {


public static void main(String[] args) {
Person p = new Person();
p.setName("Alice"); // Setting the name
System.out.println(p.getName()); // Getting the name
}
}

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