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Fields

Fields

This lesson will go into the details of the member variables or fields of a class.

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As discussed earlier, fields are actually the member variables inside a class. For instance, in a class representing a vending machine, the VendingMachine class might contain the following fields:

  • A count of type int that stores the count of products available in the machine.
  • A capacity of type int that stores the maximum number of products the machine can have.
  • A moneyCollected of type int to store the money it has collected.
  • A manufacturer of type string to store the name of the manufacturer of the machine.

The fields in the VendingMachine class could be defined like this:

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public class VendingMachine
{
    private int _count;
    private int _moneyCollected;
    public int Capacity;
    public string Manufacturer;
}

As it has been already mentioned that declaring public fields is not a good idea when it comes to the security of the code ...