--- title: "What is meant by Encapsulation?" description: "What is meant by Encapsulation?" author: "Pushpendra Singh" published: 2010-10-25 updated: 2020-09-23 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/140/what-is-meant-by-encapsulation category: "oops" tags: ["oops"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # What is meant by Encapsulation? Encapsulation is one of the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming. \ • Encapsulation is a process of hiding all the internal details of an object from the outside world • Encapsulation is a protective barrier that prevents the code and data being randomly accessed by other code or by outside the class \ • Encapsulation gives us maintainability, flexibility and extensibility to our code. \ • Encapsulation makes implementation inaccessible to other parts of the program and protect from whatever actions might be taken outside the function or class. \ • Encapsulation provides a way to protect data from accidental corruption \ • Encapsulation hides information within an object \ ## Answers ### Answer by Pushpendra Singh Encapsulation is one of the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming. \ • Encapsulation is a process of hiding all the internal details of an object from the outside world • Encapsulation is a protective barrier that prevents the code and data being randomly accessed by other code or by outside the class \ • Encapsulation gives us maintainability, flexibility and extensibility to our code. \ • Encapsulation makes implementation inaccessible to other parts of the program and protect from whatever actions might be taken outside the function or class. \ • Encapsulation provides a way to protect data from accidental corruption \ • Encapsulation hides information within an object \ ### Answer by Pushpendra Singh • Encapsulation is a process of hiding all the internal details of an object from the outside world \ • Encapsulation is the ability to hide its data and methods from outside the world and only expose data and methods that are required \ --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/140/what-is-meant-by-encapsulation Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.