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Vinay TrivediHow to Speak Techhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4324-4_3

3. The Back End: Programming Languages

Vinay Trivedi1 
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Newtown, PA, USA
 

You have spent the last couple of weeks brainstorming and refining the vision for MyAppoly. What’s next? Many would-be products never make it past this question due to the technological barrier of creating an application. Software applications are written or coded in a programming language. The code defines how the application will run and respond, encompassing everything from what you see to what happens in the background. One of the first technical decisions to make is to choose a programming language for the product. You may have heard of languages like Python, Ruby, and C, but ...

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