Property (programming)

Hello! Today we will be talking about property in programming, and I will explain it in a way that is easy for a five-year-old to understand.

Imagine you have a toy box with lots of toys inside. You want to make sure that only you can play with certain toys, and no one else can. So, you decide to put a lock on your toy box. The lock is like a property in programming.

In programming, properties are also like locks that protect important values or pieces of data. Just like how you want to protect your toys, programmers want to protect their data in the program.

Let's take the example of a video game. In a game, you want to keep track of the player's health so that they don't die in the game. Health is a property in the game, and it's important to protect it so that no one else can change it by accident.

Think of it like a secret code that only the game knows. When you play the game, you can see your health on the screen, but you can't change it. Only the game can change your health based on what is happening in the game.

So, properties are like locks that protect important information in a program, just like how you protect your toys in your toy box.