Reflection on Week 4

I'm starting to get to the point where there are terms that I don't quite get, and they're coming back to bite me. For instance, I never quite understood what EXACTLY a constructor is. I know it's a special type of method. I know it has to do with instantiation, which is creating...something. But it's that something that destroys my knowledge of the concept. And then there's stuff like that thing where you have %f with columns and row numbers and decimal places and all that; we never did a single lab with it, and consequently I have no clue how to work with it. I think the labs are the most important aspect of the class; that's where we take the theories and apply them. And I think that application is the most important part of understanding.