This shit ' s getting really weird . <| sep |> I have been immediately banned from rjokes and rsports . <| sep |> Exactly how does a private school fail the community Comrade ? <| sep |> Where ' s the tree ? Mediocre . <| sep |> Just another Thursday for me . <| sep |> Its absolutely the best tank I ' ve had , griffin 25 was nearly as good for flavour but an arse to wick . Limitless was good but i didnt get the flavour i do from the Cleito . <| sep |> An academic in anal <| sep |> To expand on the above , you have to use getters and setters to access information that is private . If your data was public then you could access it without getters or setters . The this . keyword is a way to explicitly say you are talking about the class data and not any other kind . This is really useful for when you are using variables with the same name like passing parameter called int hey , and using it to set class variable called private int hey