Simple way to understand Encapsulation and Abstraction
Learning OOP concepts especially interested to understand Abstraction and Encapsulation in depth.
Checked out the below already
Abstraction VS Information Hiding VS Encapsulation
difference between abstraction and encapsulation?
I found very hard to understand those concepts with out a real and simple example class/code snippet.
One of my colleagues said abstraction is nothing but creating abstract class and normal class that protects its member variable with scope is called Encapsulation.
Is there a simple way I can understand and help others to understand what exactly they are, rather than repeating the below?
Abstraction and encapsulation are complementary concepts: abstraction focuses on the observable behavior of an object... encapsulation focuses upon the implementation that gives rise to this behavior... encapsulation is most often achieved through information hiding, which is the process of hiding all of the secrets of object that do not contribute to its essential characteristics.
Answer
Abstraction is a process where you show only “relevant” data and “hide” unnecessary details of an object from the user. Consider your mobile phone, you just need to know what buttons are to be pressed to send a message or make a call, What happens when you press a button, how your messages are sent, how your calls are connected is all abstracted away from the user.
Encapsulation is the process of combining data and functions into a single unit called class. In Encapsulation, the data is not accessed directly; it is accessed through the functions present inside the class. In simpler words, attributes of the class are kept private and public getter and setter methods are provided to manipulate these attributes. Thus, encapsulation makes the concept of data hiding possible.
