Difference between “strict private” and “protected” Access Modifiers in Delphi?

Question

but I learn programming and after structured programming with Pascal language, I\'m beginning to learn about OOP with Delphi.

So, I don\'t really understand the diff

Answer 1

strict private - visible and accesible only from within this class.

private - visible and accesible only from within this class AND this class unit.

protected - the same as private PLUS from within descendant classes

You can read more about and idea of encapsulation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_%28computer_science%29#Encapsulation