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Abstract: Encapsulation is one of the basic characteristics of object-oriented programming. However, the access modifiers provided by common object-oriented languages do not help much because they ...

setParent and setParentSegment methods are exposed as Susbegment's API, but they have undocumented side effects. To give you two examples: so the actual reparenting should look sth like this: ...

In this lab, students gain a working knowledge of data hiding, encapsulation and the use of the protected access modifier in Java and C++. The goal of the class is to understand how to secure data in ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...

The publics surveyed are largely skeptical that democracy in the U.S., at least in its current form, is a good example for other countries to follow. A median of four-in-ten across the 34 nations ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...