Head First C#, 2nd Edition

Chapter 14. Captain Amazing: The Death of the Object

Sharpen your pencil

Below is the code detailing the fight between Captain Amazing and Swindler (not to mention his clone army). Your job is to draw out what’s going on in memory when the FinalBattle class is instantiated.

Based on your diagrams, where in the code did Captain Amazing die?

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Be sure and annotate that on your diagram, too.

Sharpen your pencil Solution

Draw what’s happening in memory with the FinalBattle program.

Your last chance to DO something... your object’s finalizer

Sometimes you need to be sure something happens before your object gets garbage-collected, like releasing unmanaged resources.

Note

In general, ...