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silentbicycle
on April 5, 2010
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Rethinking Programming Language Tutorials
Indeed. I think Python calling them "dictionaries" is pretty weird, but saying, "see, it's like a dictionary, you look up the key word and it has an associated value" is probably the right level of abstraction for someone new to programming.
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