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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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10.7 Initializing and De-initializing a Class Instance

A class will often need to perform some initialization tasks at the point of creation. These tasks can be implemented by placing an init method within the class. In the case of the BankAccount class, it would be useful to be able to initialize the account number and balance properties with values when a new class instance is created. To achieve this, the init method could be written in the class as follows:

class BankAccount {

 

    var accountBalance: Float = 0

    var accountNumber: Int = 0

 

    init(number: Int, balance: Float)

    {

        accountNumber = number

        accountBalance = balance

    }

 

    func displayBalance()

    {

   ...

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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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