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Getters and Setters are evil

January 10, 201516 comments

Getters and Setters are Evil Downloads Getters and Setters are Evil (Article) Introduction Since I started programming in Java in 2001, I have read so much about encapsulation. The Internet has become replete with Java a

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What is an object’s state?

June 1, 20140 comments

A software always consists of data and behavior (business logic). The behavior are the (business) rules that define what the software should do – in a very easy form, think of a function like a + b = c. The function (beh

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