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One thing I've noticed as a self-taught programmer is that concepts get really, really fancy names for simple things and it kinda acts as a barrier.

That said one of the hardest part s of programming on a team so far has been making names that make sense, so, some sympathy there.

I see you've likely met Dependency Injection, the fancy name for "pass the dependency as a parameter"

Exactly!

100% agree. I find this is problem particularly acute in Data Science / Machine Learning / AI.