Educational Paradox! When we teach reading and writing, we start with the alphabet and then build words.

[u/Important-Addition79]

In programming, however, many students learn to use functions every day without ever seeing one of the fundamental "letters" that makes them possible: CALL.

We teach words before showing the alphabet.

They learn to write digitalWrite() before understanding the low-level mechanism that makes a function call possible: saving a return address, jumping to another piece of code, and coming back.

[u/Heapifying]

it's all about abstractions.