derived class constructor calling base class' constructor directly the point of this slide is to emphasize what you might have noticed already in the employee-manager class hierarchythe first thing that the constructor of derived class must do is to call on the constructor of the base class for the initializations that are in the latter' init (in the code shown on the next slidethis call is made in line (aas you can seethe derived class is calling init (directly on the name of the base class purdue university