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iOS Object-Oriented Swift 2.0 Classes Instances of Classes

Adam Beck
Adam Beck
9,345 Points
Posted by Adam Beck
Adam Beck
9,345 Points

Classes - not sure where to place instance and feel like i'm missing something from this question..

I thought instances were written below, but I was trying to match what I saw on the video and couldn't find a correct answer in Xcode. Please help!

classes.swift 
// Enter your code below
class Shape {
    var numberOfSides: Int
    let someShape

   init (){

    }

}

1 Answer

Luke Dawes
Luke Dawes
9,739 Points
Luke Dawes
Luke Dawes
9,739 Points

Hi Adam,

Classes, unlike structs, require that you define an initializer method, or init method, within the definition before you can declare an instance of that class. You then declare an instance of that class outside of it, as seen here:

class Shape {
    var numberOfSides: Int

    init (numberOfSides: Int){
        self.numberOfSides = numberOfSides

    }

}

let someShape = Shape(numberOfSides: 3)

The init method will allow you to set values to the stored properties of the class, unless they've already been defined in the class or provided with default values. I'm not sure which Code Challenge you're working on, if any, but you can see I've declared an instance of the Shape class and assigned it to the someShape constant, provided it with three sides in the init method.

Hope that helps!