> Well the whole "public static void main(String[] args)" thing took me about 8ish months to understand everything in just that statement. Yeah, that's exactly

> Well the whole "public static void main(String[] args)" thing took me about 8ish months to understand everything in just that statement. Yeah, that's exactly what I mean about jargon. Even the idea that you have to hardcode what appears at first to be a string of magic words is not very accessible. > JavaScript, jquery, json, and xml also were another hurdle. Another area where things are made needlessly difficult - you really shouldn't have to worry about /how/ your data is being transferred (JSON/XML), just that you are in fact transferring it. JS versus jQuery is a bit more of a legitimate concern, but thinking about them in terms of their function rather than what they "are" (JS being general coding and jQuery being a tool for manipulating HTML/CSS) clears it up a big. > Now my main struggle is LINQ expressions and streams. I can't help with LINQ but I use streams all the time - what about them are you struggling with? Maybe I can help.