As you learned in my recent introduction to programming ... and object initialization blocks are then executed in top-down order. The constructor’s code is executed last. In this Java tutorial ...

Before Java SE 8 ... and referenced from the body must be marked final or considered effectively final (the variable cannot be assigned to after initialization). Attempting to modify an ...

The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply initializes reference types to null and primitive types to the binary equivalent of zero. That means instance variables are ... more ...