Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

... pass a person’s name to the constructor’s name parameter. The constructor will then assign the name parameter’s value to the instance variable name (line 9).

Error-Prevention Tip 3.2

Even though it’s possible to do so, do not call methods from constructors. We’ll explain this in Chapter 10, Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism and Interfaces.

Parameter name of Class Account’s Constructor and Method setName

Recall from Section 3.2.1 that method parameters are local variables. In Fig. 3.5, the constructor and method setName both have a parameter called name. Although these parameters have the same identifier (name), the parameter in line 8 ...