Storing Data Within Fields

We’ll now define a selection of fields in the class to store information about a person.

Defining fields

Let’s say we have decided that a person is composed of a name and a date of birth. We will encapsulate these two values inside a person, and the values will be visible outside it:

• Inside the Person class, write statements to declare two public fields for storing a person’s name and date of birth, as highlighted in the following code: