186: Highlights

• Constructors perform computations, such as initial member variable assignment, that you want to occur when your program creates a class object.
• Each constructor is named for the class in which it is defined, and no constructor has a return-value data type.
• The default constructor has no parameters. You should include a definition of a default constructor in every class that you define.
• If you want to initialize a class object's member-variable values using the default constructor, then use the following pattern:

  class name variable name; 
  

• If you want to initialize a class object's member-variable values using another constructor, with parameters, then use the following pattern:

  class name variable name (argument 1, ..., argument n);