I don't know that hiding complex ideas is necessarily helpful for a beginner. Admitting "by the way we're writing 'public static void' every time for a reason,

I don't know that hiding complex ideas is necessarily helpful for a beginner. Admitting "by the way we're writing 'public static void' every time for a reason, but we won't worry about it yet" or "yes technically you could complete this assignment on one line, but trying to learn that right now is not useful" don't seem like bad ways of confronting the idea that programmers don't always know everything and that's okay. Keeping them completely insulated from those kinds of things could make them seem scarier than they really are. Of course learning is complex and the "best" way totally depends on who is learning and their goals.