• Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves...
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    A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...
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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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    Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive multi-volume monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms...
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    variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming, with go to Statements In computer science, a pointer...
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    A programming language is a system of notation for writing source code such as used to produce a computer program. A language allows a programmer to develop...
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    A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code – someone with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software...
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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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  • this, self, and Me are keywords used in some computer programming languages to refer to the object, class, or other entity which the currently running...
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    In computer programming, a comment is text embedded in source code that a translator (compiler or interpreter) ignores. Generally, a comment is an annotation...
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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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  • Computer network programming involves writing computer programs that enable processes to communicate with each other across a computer network. Very generally...
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  • Asynchrony, in computer programming, refers to the occurrence of events independent of the main program flow and ways to deal with such events. These may...
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  • Program analysis tools are extremely important for understanding program behavior. Computer architects need such tools to evaluate how well programs will...
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  • In computer programming, an operator is a programming language construct that provides functionality that may not be possible to define as a user-defined...
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  • In computer programming, a trait is a language concept that represents a set of methods that can be used to extend the functionality of a class. In object-oriented...
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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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  • In computer programming, a variable is said to be volatile if its value can be read or modified asynchronously by something other than the current thread...
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  • Skeleton programming is a style of computer programming based on simple high-level program structures and so called dummy code. Program skeletons resemble...
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  • In computer programming, a poltergeist (or gypsy wagon) is a short-lived, typically stateless object used to perform initialization or to invoke methods...
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  • History of Functional Programming Languages" (PDF). International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7829...
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  • In some programming languages, const is a type qualifier (a keyword applied to a data type) that indicates that the data is read-only. While this can...
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  • A software bug is a design defect (bug) in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a...
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  • In computer programming, a declaration is a language construct specifying identifier properties: it declares a word's (identifier's) meaning. Declarations...
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  • A method in object-oriented programming (OOP) is a procedure associated with an object, and generally also a message. An object consists of state data...
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    (computer science) Coupling (physics) Dead code elimination Dependency hell Efferent coupling Inversion of control List of object-oriented programming...
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  • computer programming: Computer programming – process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs....
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  • In computer science, reflective programming or reflection is the ability of a process to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior...
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  • In computer programming, a sigil (/ˈsɪdʒəl/) is a symbol affixed to a variable name, showing the variable's datatype or scope, usually a prefix, as in...
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  • Numbers in the Ch Programming Language". Scientific Programming: 76–106. Cheng, Harry (1993). "Scientific Computing in the Ch Programming Language". Scientific...
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