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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Exercises


Now that you understand an instance's life cycle, it is time to spend some time in the Playground creating new classes and instances:

  • Exercise 1: Create a new Employee class with a custom initializer that requires two string arguments: firstName and lastName. Use the arguments to initialize properties with the same names as the arguments. Display a message with the values for firstName and lastName when an instance of the class is created. Display a message with the values for firstName and lastName when an instance of the class is destroyed.

    Create an instance of the Employee class and assign it to a variable. Check the messages printed in the Playground's Debug area. Assign a new instance of the Employee class to the previously defined variable. Check the messages printed in the Playground's Debug area.

  • Exercise 2: Create a function that receives two string arguments: firstName and lastName. Create an instance of the previously defined Employee class with the received arguments...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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