Programming complexity (or software complexity) is a term that includes software properties that affect internal interactions. Several commentators distinguish...
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Cyclomatic complexity is a software metric used to indicate the complexity of a program. It is a quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent...
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Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is the length of a shortest computer program (in a predetermined programming language) that...
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Complexity characterizes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity...
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programming, assembly languages (or second-generation programming languages—2GLs) were invented, diverging from the machine language to make programs...
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No Silver Bullet (redirect from Accidental complexity)
significant improvement in the area of accidental complexity was the invention of high-level programming languages, such as Ada. Brooks advocates "growing"...
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the time complexity is the computational complexity that describes the amount of computer time it takes to run an algorithm. Time complexity is commonly...
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Linear programming is a special case of mathematical programming (also known as mathematical optimization). More formally, linear programming is a technique...
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"Hello, World!" program in a given programming language. This is one measure of a programming language's ease of use. Since the program is meant as an...
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In computational complexity theory, the complement of a decision problem is the decision problem resulting from reversing the yes and no answers. Equivalently...
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}{=}}{\mathsf {P}}} More unsolved problems in computer science In computational complexity theory, the class NC (for "Nick's Class") is the set of decision problems...
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In computational complexity theory, SL (Symmetric Logspace or Sym-L) is the complexity class of problems log-space reducible to USTCON (undirected s-t...
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its release, and has been a popular programming language since then. Java was the third most popular programming language in 2022[update] according to...
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Constraint satisfaction problem (category Constraint programming)
high complexity, requiring a combination of heuristics and combinatorial search methods to be solved in a reasonable time. Constraint programming (CP)...
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Cargo cult programming is a style of computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose...
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Datalog (category Logic programming languages)
Datalog, answer set programming, DatalogZ, and constraint logic programming. When evaluated as an answer set program, a Datalog program yields a single answer...
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In theoretical computer science and mathematics, computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource...
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Combinatorial game theory measures game complexity in several ways: State-space complexity (the number of legal game positions from the initial position)...
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for generic programming in initial versions of Go drew considerable criticism. The designers expressed an openness to generic programming and noted that...
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In theoretical computer science, communication complexity studies the amount of communication required to solve a problem when the input to the problem...
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been limited to the following domains: Scheduling Software sizing Programming complexity Software development effort estimation Software quality A specific...
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similarity has been explained by programming language theorists in terms of existential types. In object-oriented programming languages, and other related...
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Decomposition (computer science) (redirect from Decomposition in programming)
conceive, understand, program, and maintain. Different types of decomposition are defined in computer sciences: In structured programming, algorithmic decomposition...
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development of programming language from the first-generation programming language (machine language) to the second-generation programming language (assembly...
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In computational complexity theory, L (also known as LSPACE, LOGSPACE or DLOGSPACE) is the complexity class containing decision problems that can be solved...
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In computational complexity theory, a computational problem is complete for a complexity class if it is, in a technical sense, among the "hardest" (or...
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Blum's speedup theorem (category Theorems in computational complexity theory)
program representations in a given programming language. In the theory of algorithms one often strives to find a program with the smallest complexity...
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Code golf (category Programming contests)
Computer programming portal Code poetry Data compression Minification (programming) Perl pastimes Kolmogorov complexity Kata (programming) Code Golf...
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languages. There are many music coding languages of varying complexity. Music programming is also frequently used in modern pop and rock music from various...
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while pair programming than programming alone. Furthermore, 95% said that they were more confident in their work when they pair programmed. However, as...
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