Object is initializing to unwanted value

Question

I have been working on a trivial assignment to get used to coding. I am designing an ATM machine and at the moment it is composed of 2 classes:

1. BankAccount.cpp

   • Constructor for different types of account
   • Only has balance as a member

2. Transaction.cpp

   • Performs a method on the BankAccount (i.e make deposit, make withdrawl & get balance)

Problem: BankAccount is automatically initialized to a balance of 10 which is undesired. So for example, if I made a checking account and chose to deposit $10, balance would print out $20.

//BankAccount.h
//This class will simply take in a bank account
//with a balance, other classes will use a bank account object
//such as saving/checkings and perform operations on the 
//balance

#ifndef BANK_ACCOUNT_H
#define BANK_ACCOUNT_H
class BankAccount {

private:
    float balance;
public:
    BankAccount ();
    float getBalance ();
    void makeDeposit ();
    void makeWithdrawl ();

};

#endif

//BankAccount.cpp
#include "BankAccount.h"
#include <iostream> //remove once done   *not to self
using namespace std; //remove once done *note to self


BankAccount::BankAccount() {
    balance = 0.00;
}

float BankAccount::getBalance() {
    return balance;
}

void BankAccount::makeDeposit() {
    cout << "How much would you like to deposit: ";
    float deposit_value;
    cin >> deposit_value;
    balance += deposit_value;
}

void BankAccount::makeWithdrawl() {
    cout << "How much would you like to withdrawl: ";
    float withdrawl_value;
    cin >> withdrawl_value;
    balance -= withdrawl_value;
}

//Transaction.h
#ifndef TRANSACTION_H
#define TRANSACTION_H

class Transaction {
private:
    BankAccount m_bao;
public:
    Transaction(BankAccount&);
    void displayOptions();  
    void printReciept();
};

#endif

//Transaction.cpp
#include "BankAccount.h"
#include "Transaction.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

Transaction::Transaction(BankAccount& bao) {
    m_bao = bao;
}

void Transaction::displayOptions() {
    cout << "\nPlease make a choice\n\n";
    cout << "1: Make Deposit\n";
    cout << "2: Make Withdrawl\n";
    cout << "3: Check Balance\n";

    int choice;
    cin >> choice;
    switch (choice) {
    case 1: 
        m_bao.makeDeposit();
        break;
    case 2:
        m_bao.makeWithdrawl();
        break;
    case 3:
        m_bao.getBalance();
        break;
    }
}

void Transaction::printReciept() {
    cout << "Current balance is now: " << m_bao.getBalance() + '\n';
}


int main () {

    BankAccount checking;
    Transaction q(checking);
    q.displayOptions(); 
    q.printReciept();


}

I am sure the answer is right in front of my eyes, but my brain is just fried right now. I will continue to look for the solutions and let you guys know if my problem has been solved yet.

[EDIT]

Alright, now I am trying to make it so that the customer can choose to perform transactions on either Checking or Savings account. Currently I got it looking like this in my main():

int main () {

    BankAccount checking(0.00);
    BankAccount savings(0.00);
    Transaction c(checking);
    Transaction s(savings);
    for(int i = 0; i < 10 ; i++) {
        cout << "Make an option" << endl;
        cout << "1. Checking "   << endl;
        cout << "2. Savings"     << endl;

        int choice;
        cin >> choice;
        if (choice == 1) {
            c.prompt();
            c.printReciept();
        }
        else {
            s.prompt();
            s.printReciept();
        }
    }

}

It works fine, but I would like to make this process more OOP-alized, if that makes sense :)

One option I was trying to look into was making a prompt function which would belong to Transaction.cpp. This would do everything that is done in main, except initializing the objects of course.

Answer 1

Your problem is this line:

cout << "Current balance is now: " << m_bao.getBalance() + '\n';

Which the compiler sees as:

cout << "Current balance is now: " << (m_bao.getBalance() + '\n');

'\n' is 10 as an int, so you get this:

cout << "Current balance is now: " << (m_bao.getBalance() + 10);

You probably meant to do this:

cout << "Current balance is now: " << m_bao.getBalance() << '\n';

Remember that in C++, + almost always means "add these two numbers".