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Justin Townsend
4,720 PointsJava noob
yeah i'm stuck, I don't exactly know what initialization is.
class GoKart {
private String color = "red";
public GoKart(String color){
this.color = color;
}
public String getColor() {
return color;
}
}
1 Answer
Tonnie Fanadez
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 22,796 PointsHi there,
Congrats for passing part one and part two of the challenge; you should now consider yourself an upcoming Java Master!
Initialization is just assigning a value to an Object using a single = sign. Before initialization objects have null value for Strings or default values such as 0 for ints or false for booleans.
In this challenge the value of color is assigned or set to "red" using "=" sign in the field definition. To remove the initialization from the field definition you just need to declare the color but without setting it to red.
See the below code:
//before removing the initialization
private String color = "red";
//after removing the assignment
private String color;