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		lelanthran on May 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing a Programming Book in 2021 > Stay to your index > > A book has a beginning and an ending. Remember that. Write down your index of contents before you start writing. The table of contents is typically not an index. An index is something else found at the end of the book.

7thaccount on May 12, 2021 [–]

It's still an index though right? Just an index of chapters and not key words right?

themulticaster on May 12, 2021 | [–]

I agree that you could technically say the table of contents is an index (comparing it to a DB index), but because "index" also means something completely different in this context I would avoid using the term this way.

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