Object-oriented programming gives us modifiers, which control the visibility of members and methods. In some languages, like Java, we have modifiers such as private and public.

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One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way ...