Having trouble understanding placement of mPezCount...

Hey Morgan, from what I understand a "Constructor" is invoked when you make your class object and use the "new" operator.

Ex. PezDispenser dispenser = new PezDispenser("Yoda");

In this case, the constructor allows the user to give her/his PezDispenser a name while going ahead to initialize its Pez count. I like to look at it as using the constructor to get everything setup. Thus, its convenient to go ahead and initialize the mPezCount to a standard value of zero (since there are other methods to use for loading & such). That way, after we do make the object and call the constructor, we'll able to use the other methods such as isEmpty() or dispense(), etc.. Since we know everything we needed to have a value has been set.

This is how I look at why the Professor had told us to give the value of mPezCount 0 in the constructor. Even though it only takes one String argument. I hope this helps.