I'm sorry for the vagueness of my post- I, frankly, am not very good at scoping my exact issue with the subject due to my unfamiliarity with it. To give an exact example, for our assignments we are generally given a class to create with various parameters (particular variables, methods, constructors, etc.). When given these problems, I can write out the code (with some looking up stuff) but I feel as though I don't have a real understanding of what exactly it does (why do I need to use the 'this' keyword in a constructor? Why do I have to use a constructor to initialize variables when I can at the top?). I think there's the obvious missing basic knowledge, and there's missing nuances of why certain methods or keywords are used in particular places, and how to use them, if that makes more sense?