intangible components. A computer program in its human-readable form is called source code. Source code needs another computer program to execute because computers...

Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves...

or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very...

computer itself, such as starting programs Configuration language – a language used to write configuration files Programming language – a formal language designed...

small piece of code in most general-purpose programming languages, this program is used to illustrate a language's basic syntax. Such a program is often the...

project requirements, lack of programming style rules, and software engineers with insufficient ability or experience. Code that overuses GOTO statements...

object-oriented programming language. It is intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all...

In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing...

In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language. A programmer writes the human...

Return-oriented programming (ROP) is a computer security exploit technique that allows an attacker to execute code in the presence of security defenses...

computer program. Commonly, a library consists of executable code such as compiled functions and classes, or a library can be a collection of source code. A...

In computer programming, a code smell is any characteristic in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. Determining what...

"modular programming" now refers to the high-level decomposition of the code of an entire program into pieces: structured programming to the low-level code use...

(Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original...

Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other...

existing code in non-protected program storage), in a sequence equivalent to the ones that a standard compiler may generate as the object code. With modern...

In computer programming, a comment is text embedded in source code that a translator (compiler or interpreter) ignores. Generally, a comment is an annotation...

In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language...

conditions are satisfied—a practice known as offensive programming—the general idea being that code should "fail hard", with contract verification being...

testing, and pair programming. Static analysis relies primarily on automated tools, self-checks involve only the author, testing requires code execution, and...

software engineering, code coverage, also called test coverage, is a percentage measure of the degree to which the source code of a program is executed when...

In computing, code generation denotes software techniques or systems that generate program code which may then be used independently of the generator...

by defining instructions as data and using self-modifying code. As the bulk of programming moved to higher-level compiled languages such as ALGOL, COBOL...

manually typing code as well as keeping track of all the minute information in the program. Roose, Kevin (February 27, 2025), "Not a Coder? With A.I., Just...

Managed code is computer program code that requires and will execute only under the management of a Common Language Infrastructure (CLI); Virtual Execution...

integrates the function of several tools into a single program. Usually, an IDE provides a source code editor as well as other built-in or plug-in tools that...

operating system starts the program by passing control to the loaded program code. All operating systems that support program loading have loaders, apart...

tool. Programmers often use tools to format programming language source code in a particular manner. Proper code formatting makes it easier to read and understand...

programming language is required in order to execute programs, namely an interpreter or a compiler. An interpreter directly executes the source code,...

approved in a code audit. Making the software behave in a predictable manner despite unexpected inputs or user actions. Overly defensive programming, however...