The mighty constructor

- [Speaker] To create objects in Java we use a constructor. … Here, I've written some code for a character class. … And, you can see that a character has 2 member variables. … One for name, and one for species. … Each character we create should have a different name … and species that's just specific to that object. … And, that's why we need to use the character constructor … to initialize that data. … So, I'm going to start creating a character. … This ones going to be called Bilbo. … And at this point, Java has made a little place in memory … for the character Bilbo, which is an object. … And, inside of the character there are two spaces … for name and species. … They're both blank right now. … Now, I want to initialize Bilbo with specific data … to describe his name and species. … And to do that, I'm going to use the new keyword … which we'll call a constructor. … So, when this code is run. … It sets the name inside of the Bilbo object to Bilbo. … To the string Bilbo, and species to the string hobbit. …