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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by access or methods access or methods I didn't even

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access refrigerator They're mine Yeah shmoop drinking song Which of

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the following is a correct implementation of the get paddler

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name access or method And hear the potential answers thinking

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thinking like back All right here we go This question

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is more or less a matter of syntax But wait

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What is an excess or method anyway And what's the

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point of using one Well it's essentially just a small

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method written to retrieve the data from a private variable

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But why bother Isn't that needlessly complicated Why not just

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make our variables public and reader Change him wherever we

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want Well because that's like flying without a net If

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we funnel every request for a variables data through access

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or mutate er methods we get another place to put

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code to act on that date each and every time

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it's accessed or modify Imagine this you're creating a huge

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game where players are in gold by defeating monsters and

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later they can return to town and buy items with

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their goal We'll call it world of shmoop craft Yeah

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very retold in there with you in the area of

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code where monsters were fought and gold is granted we'll

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be adding a small number of gold to the players

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Gold amount variable every time a monster is defeated And

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when players go to the shop to buy things we

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subtract the necessary Amount from the same variable No access

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or or mutate or methods to check up on us

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were totally naked here Good Now let's say the game

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has been released to the public and thousands of people

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are playing games with each other And the mischievous lord

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beef is has discovered something interesting about your game If

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he stands in a certain spot holds the attack buttoned

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down he can slay the spider queen with one swipe

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over and over and over forever believes a roll of

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quarters on the keyboard to hold the button down and

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lets it run overnight amassing a huge fortune and completely

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throwing off the in game economy Well everyone else is

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harder and fortune is worthless in lord be fist ruins

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the game Thanks for nothing lord beef How could access

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or um you tater methods have prevented this catastrophe Well

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a lot of ways actually when using accessory mutate or

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methods tto handle the bold amount variable One possibility would

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be insert some logic that checks whether the amount of

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gold has been modified in the last few seconds and

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if so does not allow it to be modified again

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I don't keep anyone's gold amount from dramatically skyrocketing in

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case of some un forcing repeating issue somewhere or just

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spitballing here since they're likely be a variable story number

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of bad guys each player has slayed a check would

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be implemented in the accessory mutate Er methods there if

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any player or beef is included manages to somehow sleigh

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and otherwise impossible amount of enemies in one day say

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a thousand a special condition could be triggered Handle it

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Maybe it even rig something amazing like an automated text

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in the middle of the night saying you need to

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wake up and take care of lord be fist but

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imagine explaining that one to your spouse Really though there

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are probably thousands of creative ways you could use accessory

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indicator methods to protect the sanity of your variables It

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might seem tedious to implement those methods but they'll save

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you in the long run Hart's back to our question

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which is the correct way to set up in access

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or method to get the variable paddler name option is

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a routine that simply prince paddler name to the console

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that's no good We want to return the variable so

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we can work With it option c also just prince

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paddler name both and we're out b d any all

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returned the variable but b is being declared as a

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private methods No dice there Option d doesn't specify the

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words string in its constructor so nothing be option is

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right on the money It's public it specify string and

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it returns the variable and in a statement that's never

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been uttered in the entire history of humanity Good job

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everyone We've saved the freestyle canoeing competition from the scores 00:04:00.7 --> [endTime] of lord beef

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