Declaring private fields and public properties

- The purpose for creating a special class to represent data…is to contain all of the other data…that's associated with it.…You do this with fields and properties.…A field is a variable that belongs to the class.…It's sometimes called an instance field.…There are both static fields and instance fields.…A static field belongs to the class definition…while an instance field belongs to…each instance of the class.…You declare fields as members of the classes.…

I'll start in my Fruit class,…which I've already defined as a part of my program.…I'm working in a version of the solution now called…FieldsAndProperties.…Initially, I'm going to declare this in the wrong way.…It's going to functionally work,…but it's not going to follow object-oriented principles.…But my goal is to show you…how you can represent data in a class…and then expose that data to the application…in the correct way.…Each field within the class should be marked with an…access modifier and a data type.…

I'll start with public then string,…and then the identifier for the field,…