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I teach intro CS to non-majors, and having to explain terminology is cumbersome. For instance, we call things "strings", "floats", and "dictionaries". And then

by acbart 11y ago

I teach intro CS to non-majors, and having to explain terminology is cumbersome. For instance, we call things "strings", "floats", and "dictionaries". And then I make them download Anaconda so they can get Spyder to write Python programs. I can't help but wonder what goes through their heads.

V-2 11y ago
Isn't "map" the proper CS term rather than a dictionary?
- roger_333 11y ago
  They're called dictionaries (dicts) in Python.
  - V-2 11y ago
    And in .NET, but that's sort of an alias, while the scientific term is "map", I believe.
- TorKlingberg 11y ago
  They have many names: dictionary, map, associative array, table, hash table, hash.