• In programming languages, a closure, also lexical closure or function closure, is a technique for implementing lexically scoped name binding in a language...
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    teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation...
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  • In computer programming, an anonymous function (function literal, expression or block) is a function definition that is not bound to an identifier. Anonymous...
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  • In computer programming, a callback is a function that is stored as data (a reference) and designed to be called by another function – often back to the...
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    In computer science, conditionals (that is, conditional statements, conditional expressions and conditional constructs) are programming language constructs...
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  • In computer programming, a function (also procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram) is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined...
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    In computer science, an interpreter is a computer program that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without...
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  • distinguishing feature of object-oriented programming, while some programming languages that provide lexical closures view encapsulation as a feature of the...
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  • In mathematics, the transitive closure R+ of a homogeneous binary relation R on a set X is the smallest relation on X that contains R and is transitive...
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  • In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions. It is a declarative...
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  • In computer programming, ellipsis notation (.. or ...) is used to denote ranges, an unspecified number of arguments, or a parent directory. Most programming...
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  • Procedural programming is a programming paradigm, classified as imperative programming, that involves implementing the behavior of a computer program as procedures...
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    Alan Kay (category American computer programmers)
    Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI)...
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    In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow...
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  • of partially ordered sets, which are important in theoretical computer science, closure operators have a more general definition that replaces ⊆ {\displaystyle...
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  • First-class function (category Functional programming)
    In computer science, a programming language is said to have first-class functions if it treats functions as first-class citizens. This means the language...
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  • In computer science, syntactic closures are an implementation strategy for a hygienic macro system. The term pertains to the Scheme programming language...
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  • design "inverts" control as compared to procedural programming. In procedural programming, a program's custom code calls reusable libraries to take care...
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  • In computer programming, a variable is an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity...
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    In computer programming, a macro (short for "macro instruction"; from Greek μακρο- 'long, large') is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input...
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