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Last edited by Shiraz; September 28th, 2014 at 05:34 AM.
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The value 0 is the default value for integer variables in java. Since you never set the value of your private member variable i it stays at its default value.
What you do in the constructor is set the value of your parameteter i to the value of the parameter i, a no-op.