It's how you can initialize a variable to like zero for counting's sake or something like that.

你可以初始化一个变量，像0用来,计数的或者诸如此类的。

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Initialization. A very common bug is to initialize a variable. Go through a loop, and then forget to reinitialize it when it needs to be reinitialized again.

忘记初始化,忘记初始化变量是一个很常见的错误,运行完一个循环之后,当需要再次初始化时。

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i So I have up here at the top of my program a variable called i 0 of type int, and I have to initialize it up here to zero.

所以在程序的顶端我有一个int类型的变量,我需要把它初始化为。

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