Quiz question: "Instance attributes always have to be passed in when an instance is created."

Hi there, Nicole Rogers! Yes, you could have an instance of a class that takes no parameters and sets up a number of default attributes. You could also have set a default value directly in the parameters. So for instance, let's say we had a class Student. We could set up the initializer to have a parameter of "programming_language". If we wanted to set a default value for, we'd do something like this:

def __init__(self, programming_language="Python"):
    self.programming_language = programming_language

This would allow for two ways to create the instance. You could either do something like:

student1 = Student()

or

student2 = Student(programming_language="JavaScript")

Either one would work. The first one would automatically have their programming language preference set to Python and the second would have it set to JavaScript. So there are ways to create an instance without passing anything in at the time of creation and one of those is to have default values set in the parameters of the __init__

Hope this helps!