The addChoice function, so confusing

A extension is like a category in Objective-C, like it's name it extends the functionality of the VC or any object you are extending. By creating a extension on Page like they did in the video now you are making addChoiceWith() method default behavior of the class. It does two things extend functionality and also for organization of code.

extension String{ func printMe(){ print("I have a string called" + "" + self) } }

Now with this extension on String you can now have a method printMe that you can call on any String object.

I feel the same way. I love Pasan, but he talks so fast sometimes and doesn't stress what the heck we are doing. At the end I watched ten minutes of something for which I have no clue what the purpose is. I really liked extensions when they were first explained in the previous lessons. But I'm growing to hate them as I see them filled with convoluted code I don't understand.

Also, it doesn't help that every couple minutes he deletes the code completely and takes a different path. I suspect that makes it seem more confusing than it is.

I too am having a hard time understanding this video. I wish there were some illustrations to make it easier to wrap my head around. Pasan Premaratne is there a better way this could be explained?

Hey folks! I definitely understand the frustration :( At the time this course was made, I didn't have a full curriculum planned and didn't have any good places to highlight the uses of computed properties and functions in an extension. This entire course is due for replacement/refresh..

The reason we implement this is purely as a "convenience" to make it easier to call a method that has more arguments. This is a common pattern. If we have a function that "gets the job done" but is cumbersome to call from another object, a common way of cleaning it up is to write an additional function that is "cleaner" at the call site and just does the set up work you need to do to call the original function.

Does this make sense?

I spent an hour trying to understand, Wing Sun Cheung did you finally get it? Care to explain it to me?