> The whole point of abstraction is to use it without understanding it. No. No, that not "the whole point" of abstraction. To benefit from reasoning and descri

> The whole point of abstraction is to use it without understanding it. No. No, that not "the whole point" of abstraction. To benefit from reasoning and describing problems on a suitable level of abstraction you certainly do need to understand your building blocks. > don't go study quantum mechanics [...] when you are writing JavaScript. No, that would be as just silly as to wait for a doctate in thermodynamics before cooking an egg, but please have a decent understanding of HTML and HTTP before you write javascript web apps professionally.