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Eric Boxer
9,026 PointsI am still confused on the purpose of convenience class
I understand the purpose of initializing classes, but I am still lost on the purpose of convenience initializer.
In the video two classes are created: Vehicle and Car. The Vehicle class calls a convenience init to assign the name "Unnamed", and the same for the number of doors for the Car initializer.
What I am confused on is how this is different from assigning the value directly in the class, or even in the designated init. It seems like a lot of extra code to do essentially the same thing. Am I missing another concept here?