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		Galanwe on Feb 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education “Meta” means “one level of abstraction above”. I find it perfectly okay to use it in this context.

MereInterest on Feb 4, 2020 [–]

The point isn't whether a word fits a definition, but whether that word already has a definition with which the new definition will be confused.

rudedogg on Feb 4, 2020 | [–]

And the word is specific to programming! The usage in the course seems incorrect to me too.

Everything else looks great though!

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