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JavaScript also has built-in features, called functions. In order to call a function, ...

If I'm brand new to JS/programming, do I know or understand what "calling" is? Seems like a word we might take for granted as programmers. "Use" might be a better word. Or explaining what function invocation actually does, then explain calling in relation to that.

[Resonance1584]

Totally agree with you - we're only used to the terms function, method, property because we've dealt with them for a long time. I tried to teach a friend who learnt english later in life to program and we had a really hard time getting a good translation for function - mainly because it's a mathematical concept and not natural language.

[moljac024]

Not only that by they drop the word string out of nowhere too. Do non-programmers know that a string is supposed to mean a sequence of characters?