> These days I'm pretty pleased when I can say a piece of code utilises only syntax and statements taught in an introductory programming course. Why? Shouldn'

> These days I'm pretty pleased when I can say a piece of code utilises only syntax and statements taught in an introductory programming course. Why? Shouldn't you be building up from that towards the problem you are actually trying to solve? Is it reasonable to expect someone to understand every single bit of code in a large project without reading documentation of the components below it?