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by arbitrary visual aids doesn't matter what they are A

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cz long as they help you learn right Yeah well

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given the following code stuff right here Which of the

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following is a correct implementation Or the is insect method

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With our meaning Whether it's insect Art and hear the

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potential answers brought to you by the roman army Here

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we go Okay well here we're being asked that correct

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implementation of a method called is insect which is working

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with an animal object and we're being given three different

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potential ways to go about it It looks like the

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ultimate goal is to grab the data from number of

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legs represented here by delicious burger and determine whether or

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not number of legs is greater than or equal to

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six Right trick though is doing it properly Number of

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legs lived right here in the animal class It's a

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private imager So the rest of the program outside the

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class won't be able to access the variable directly But

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there's also a public access or method called get number

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of legs that can fetch a number of legs for

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us Well we'll need to use it to get it

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Our sweet sweet data let's Take a look at implementation

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one if number of legs is greater than or equal

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to six return true else returned false well for starters

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it trying to access number of leg isn't declared in

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the scope of this function We need access number of

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legs through the object A then even if that had

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worked it's being a bit redundant with this return True

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returned false business have given condition is true return True

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Yeah no kidding but there's a better way Implementation to

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is a little closer to what we want now It

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specifies that number of legs his heart of objects but

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it's still trying to directly access number of legs which

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is a private variable so we need to use the

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access or method implementation three is way better Not only

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does it specify object a but it also calls the

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animal class access or method get number of legs compares

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the data to the number six and returns a true

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or false statement All in one go implementation Three is

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the only one that works with corresponds to cancer See 00:02:29.18 --> [endTime] that's our key to flavor country

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