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...

In computer programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

tool, with human analysis typically being called "program understanding", program comprehension, or code review. In the last of these, software inspection...

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...

is a list of notable tools for static program analysis (program analysis is a synonym for code analysis). CodePeer ConQAT Fluctuat LDRA Testbed MALPAS...

Cargo cult programming is a style of computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose...

Web app program code using a secret key, so the plug-in code interpreter could then use the corresponding public key to authenticate the code before allowing...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

major data structures, and Lisp source code is made of lists. Thus, Lisp programs can manipulate source code as a data structure, giving rise to the...

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

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

computer programming, a P-code machine (portable code machine) is a virtual machine designed to execute P-code, the assembly language or machine code of a...

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