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encapsulationchanges to code to be more easily made since one can be confident that 'outsiders' are not relying on too many detailspractice2.7 - Concepts that Define Object Orientationto achieve information hidingCreating a module to contain some algorithm or data structure, thus hiding its details behind the module's interface

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