Beginner to programming. References to understand terms.

[Bill Kelsoe <wildbillkelsoe@...>]

Hi,

I have been reading PIL 5.1/RM5.1 but I just finished the first two chapters in PIL with some basic understanding. I found the following terms undescribed or briefly described in technical terms that I could not understand. I was hoping for a reference for a baby trying to understand programming for the first time of their life. For example, the lines of code separated by two dashes line (comment), is a chunk. An Object is part of a Class but I dont even know what an object is or the class to begin with.

Array (and associative type)

Argument

Calls(Function Calls)

Constructor

Compiler

Class

Chunk

Data structure

Definition(Multi-line)

Declaration

Delimit

_expression_

Element

Function

Interpreter

Identifier

Index

Initialisation

Object

Prompt

Parameter

Procedure

Tuple

Table

String

Shell

Statement

Sentinel

Variable (dummy, local, global, non-initialised)

Value (immutable, non-value, first class)

Thanks in advance,

Adel