May 2010
Beginner
272 pages
6h 29m
English
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Glossary
- abstract
Hiding details. When a language is more abstract, you can write programs using a smaller number of (individually more powerful) operations.
- Ada
An object-oriented language designed by a committee for the DoD in the late 1970s. Turned out about like you would expect.
- AI, artificial intelligence
A general term for several kinds of work that attempt to make machines think. The more mathematical have had some success (e.g. in computer vision).
- Algol
A programming language initially designed in 1958 by a committee (bad) of very smart (good) people. Rarely used to write programs, but had a great influence on succeeding languages.
- algorithm
A method for doing something. Recipes are examples of algorithms.
- alphanumeric characters
Letters and digits.
- API
Application Program Interface. The list of commands an operating system or library will accept from applications.
- APL
An extremely succinct language designed in the early 1960s by Ken Iverson. Used especially in numerical applications. Its modern descendant is J.
- application
A program that is not infrastructure. E.g. a word processor, but not an operating system. Not a precise term.
- Arc
A vaporware Lisp dialect.
- array
What in school you called a matrix: an n-dimensional collection of numbered pigeonholes for storing data.
- ASP
Application Service Provider. A company that lets you use software on their computers via a network, as opposed to installing and running the software on your own computer.
- assembly language
A more programmer-friendly form ...
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