• Action at a distance is an anti-pattern in computer science in which behavior in one part of a program varies wildly based on difficult or impossible to...
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  • to 3, which then casts to true so the loop is infinite Action at a distance (computer programming) Don't-care term Sequence point Side-channel attack Undefined...
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    brought parallel computing to desktop computers. Thus parallelization of serial programs has become a mainstream programming task. In 2012 quad-core processors...
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    and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. The Levenshtein distance between...
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  • List of software anti-patterns (category Object-oriented programming)
    Yo-yo problem Accidental complexity Action at a distance Boat anchor Busy waiting Caching failure Cargo cult programming Coding by exception Error hiding...
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  • Action (firearms), the mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech Action! (programming language), for Atari 8-bit computers Action...
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    new programming models transcend sequential-execution programming: When writing a multi-threaded program, the programmer may write each thread as a sequence...
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  • esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language...
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  • Inductive programming (IP) is a special area of automatic programming, covering research from artificial intelligence and programming, which addresses...
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  • In computer programming, the term hooking covers a range of techniques used to alter or augment the behaviour of an operating system, of applications...
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    doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14295-6_8. Hoare, C. A. R. (October 1969). "An axiomatic basis for computer programming" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 12 (10):...
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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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    Video game (redirect from Computer games)
    A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard...
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  • computer programming, a statement is a syntactic unit of an imperative programming language that expresses some action to be carried out. A program written...
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    The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM)...
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    Action This Day: From Breaking of the Enigma Code to the Birth of the Modern Computer Bantam Press 2001 Frank da Cruz. "A Chronology of Computing at Columbia...
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  • to: Action at a distance, direct interaction of physical objects that are not in proximity Conjugated system (or nonlocalized bond), in chemistry, a conjugated...
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  • notebook computers usually have a shorter travel distance for the keystroke, shorter over travel distance, and a reduced set of keys. They may not have a numeric...
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    theory of computation". In Computer Programming and formal systems. North-Holland. McCarthy, J. 1963b. Situations, actions, and causal laws. Technical...
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  • constructivist cognitive learning in computer literacy, which involved programming as an instrument of learning.: 224  LOGO, a programming language, embodied an attempt...
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    Awareness" Program". Scientific American. Retrieved 19 October 2013. John Markoff (November 22, 2002). "Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal...
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    designed to facilitate the programming of applications that make use of robotics and other IoT devices. Visual and graphical programming languages have been...
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    2013). "Programming the ENIAC". Programming the ENIAC. Columbia University. Retrieved May 16, 2016. Alt, Franz (July 1972). "Archaeology of computers: reminiscences...
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  • Tron (category Films about computer hacking)
    combined with the 2D computer animation and the live action. Tron was released on July 9, 1982. The film was a moderate success at the box office, and...
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  • Thunder and Gunstar Heroes. Shooter games allow the player to take action at a distance using a ranged weapon, challenging them to aim with accuracy and speed...
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  • Chord (section Programming)
    chording, the capability to perform an action when holding multiple buttons on a computer mouse. Chord keyboard, a computer device allowing for input based on...
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    Login (redirect from Computer login)
    Computer systems keep a log of users' access to the system. The term "log" comes from the chip log which was historically used to record distance traveled...
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    computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal approach to programming may...
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    A computer mouse (plural mice; also mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically...
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    It contains traditional classrooms, a distance learning classroom, computer classrooms/labs, a science lab and a student lounge. The New Kensington Education...
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