In computer science, an expression is a syntactic entity in a programming language that may be evaluated to determine its value. It is a combination of...
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In computer science, a Boolean expression (also known as logical expression) is an expression used in programming languages that produces a Boolean value...
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of an individual person Expression (mathematics), a symbolic description of a mathematical object Expression (computer science), an instruction to execute...
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In computer science and software programming, a value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program. The members of a type...
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and software for manipulating mathematical expressions and other mathematical objects. Although computer algebra could be considered a subfield of scientific...
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Regular expression techniques are developed in theoretical computer science and formal language theory. The concept of regular expressions began in the...
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This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including...
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In computer science, an operation, function or expression is said to have a side effect if it has any observable effect other than its primary effect of...
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In computer programming, an S-expression (or symbolic expression, abbreviated as sexpr or sexp) is an expression in a like-named notation for nested list...
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bound to an identifier. Lambda expression in lambda calculus, a formal system in mathematical logic and computer science for expressing computation by...
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Fundamental areas of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines...
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formal languages, which are used in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, a string is a finite sequence of symbols that are chosen from a set...
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Computer science (also called computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and...
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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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Knowledge Sharing" by Tom Gruber used ontology as a technical term in computer science closely related to earlier idea of semantic networks and taxonomies...
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equivalence of two lambda expressions is undecidable (but see unification (computer science)). This is also the case for the expressions representing real numbers...
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In most imperative programming languages, the assignment statement (or expression) is a fundamental construct. Today, the most commonly used notation for...
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defined by a regular expression, in the strict sense in theoretical computer science (as opposed to many modern regular expression engines, which are augmented...
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In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of objects...
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ACSL, or the American Computer Science League, is an international computer science competition among more than 300 schools. Originally founded in 1978...
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In computer programming, a statement is a syntactic unit of an imperative programming language that expresses some action to be carried out. A program...
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The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments...
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manipulating mathematical expressions and other mathematical objects Computational science, constructing numerical solutions and using computers to analyze and solve...
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Roselyn (2013). Barron's AP Computer Science A. Barron's. ISBNÂ 978-1-4380-0152-4. "Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science ch 18: Trees". College Of...
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(AP) Computer Science A (also known as AP CompSci, AP CompSci A, AP CSA, AP Computer Science Applications, or AP Java) is an AP Computer Science course...
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computer algebra system (CAS) or symbolic algebra system (SAS) is any mathematical software with the ability to manipulate mathematical expressions in...
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and computer science, specifically automated reasoning, unification is an algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions, each...
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson...
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Theoretical computer science is a subfield of computer science and mathematics that focuses on the abstract and mathematical foundations of computation...
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Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles (also known as AP CSP) is an AP Computer Science course and examination offered by the College Board...
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