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Hello World! I am back in the blogosphere after several months. The present course is called "Data Structures & Algorithms" and this week's focus is centered around installing Java and reviewing object-oriented design principles. Thankfully the instructions embedded within the course made the installation of Java and IDE (integrated development environment) NetBeans seamless. The links provided to each website were straightforward (for the most part): NetBeans (version 16): https://netbeans.apache.org/download/index.html Java (version 19): https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/ The 4 major principles of Object-Oriented Programming: 1) Encapsulation - The hiding of data implementation by restricting access to accessors and mutators. The pieces that surround the data that forms the class. An Accessor is a method that is used to ask an object about itself (Lewallen, 2005). This is typically in the form of properties. Mutators are public methods used t