Encapsulation and Polymorphism

Encapsulation and Polymorphism

Specification

Be familiar with the concepts of:

• encapsulation
• polymorphism

Encapsulation

Encapsulation is the name given to the process of combining methods and procedures to form an object in object-oriented programming. An object is said to encapsulate its contents, forming a single entity which encompasses all of the object's properties and methods.

Encapsulation allows the development of large programs to be split across a team of developers, each of whom can be allocated a class to develop. As long as a developer knows the methods which belong to other classes, they can develop their…