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by daveguy 3790 days ago
I do think this would be helpful for people just learning to program. When my daughter was introduced to programming at school they used the term "procedure" to describe a function or method. I noticed that wasn't listed as a synonym, which would be helpful.

So, good for the general public and good for new programmers. When I get people in the lab that want to "learn programming" this is where I will send them first. It will make all of the other programming introductions much easier to follow for someone with no prior experience.

Edit: Glad to see that it is the start of an intro programming book. All intro programming books should start with an intro to terminology. One other thing missing besides "procedure" -- coding. They use it at the end of the page, but it is nowhere else on the page.