There's a ton of technicalities here, but when I was on your shoes (learning jQuery instead), I just swept DOM under the rug as a fancy way of saying "how HTML documents are structured". That way, phrases like traversing the DOM or fetching from the DOM made sense — my JavaScript code is doing some fancy stuff with HTML.
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.
There's a ton of technicalities here, but when I was on your shoes (learning jQuery instead), I just swept DOM under the rug as a fancy way of saying "how HTML documents are structured". That way, phrases like traversing the DOM or fetching from the DOM made sense — my JavaScript code is doing some fancy stuff with HTML.