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Matthew Kang
1,140 PointsWhy do you put mPezCount = 0 in the constructor?
public class PezDispenser { public static final int MAX_PEZ = 12; private String mCharacterName; private int mPezCount;
public PezDispenser(String characterName) { mCharacterName = characterName; mPezCount = 0; //Why do you put this here }
public void load() { mPezCount = MAX_PEZ; }
public String getCharacterName() { return mCharacterName; } }
3 Answers
Aditya Sheode
1,291 PointsHe Just took a fresh pez dispenser like one you do at the market. SO like in the market it will be empty hence mPezCount = 0
naga pavan
558 PointsConstructor is generally used to initialize the variables in class to the default number. Whenever the class is called the variable mPezCount will be intialized to 0. So that we can modify the value using member functions according to our requirments.
Joshua Mclendon
46,708 PointsI think he does it because say you want to create more than one PezDispenser well when you do your object creation PezDispenser pezOne = new PezDispenser(Luke) and then do a second one PezDispenser pezTwo = new PezDispenser(Yoda). Whatever methods you used to change the count for pezOne (like load() method) when you want to make pezTwo the count gets reset to zero because in the constructor it's set to 0 so that pezTwo doesn't get the amount of pez pezOne has.
Hope this helps
Best,
-JM