Parsing is the process of decoding information from a source into a more usable format.

A simple, non-technical example would be browsing this webpage. When the page loads you start to scan the page to understand the subject of the page, how the content is organized, how you can navigate …

Dot-notation is used to express the relationship between an object and it’s properties (and sometimes methods). An example of dot notation would be building.streetAddress. In this example, the object would be building and the property would be the "streetAddress." If the "streetAddress" property were also an object, you …