assignment vs programming

assignment

noun
  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. 

  • A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. 

  • A document that effects this transfer. 

  • An assigned task. 

  • The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. 

  • An operation that assigns a value to a variable. 

  • A position to which someone is assigned. 

  • A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. 

  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. 

programming

noun
  • The act of writing a computer program. 

  • Brain-washing. 

  • The design and scheduling of a performance such as ballet. 

  • The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme. 

  • The software that controls a machine, or the logic expressed in such software; operating instructions. 

  • A conditioned response. 

How often have the words assignment and programming occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )