Q: How to get the style of a custom cell class, to instantiate the custom cell programatically I would like to instantiate a custom table view cell programmatically as the way I have created it has the ideal UI for my situation 
I've tried many different ways to get the style of my custom cell class when instantiating my cell programmatically but none of them were actually giving it the properties of my custom cell, the properties being a few custom labels and a stepper I was using to affect the value of one of the labels text
let cell = StepperTableViewCell(style: StepperTableViewCell.CellStyle.default, 
reuseIdentifier: "cellID")

I expect it to return a cell that is my custom cell but it always fails when I use any of the properties of my custom cell, saying 

MaverickPantry[33017:447102] Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while
  implicitly unwrapping an Optional value

