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AutoIt is a popular and easy-to-learn scripting language used by developers since 1999 for quick software development. Here’s more about...
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TypeScript is an open source programming language that was developed by Microsoft as a superset of JavaScript. This means that...
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What is COBOL? COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. It is a 60-year-old programming language that is still widely used...
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Haskell is a purely functional programming language based entirely on mathematical and logical processes. Functional programming is a form of...
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A sigil is a symbol used in some programming languages to indicate different program features. BASIC and Perl are two...
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Strict evaluation, also known as eager evaluation, is the evaluation strategy used by most functional programming languages where an expression...
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ML, short for Meta Language, is a general-purpose functional programming language. It’s statically scoped, meaning that a variable always refers...
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Bosque is a free and open source programming language developed by Microsoft. It is derived from the syntax and types...
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A struct, or structure, in C programming languages is a container that holds variables of different data types that can...
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A tuple is a finite ordered list of elements. Tuples are written by listing comma-separated elements within parentheses. Learn more about Webopedia.
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In computer programming, string interpolation is the process of replacing placeholders with values in a string literal. Learn more from Webopedia.
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In programming language theory, lazy evaluation is an evaluation strategy that delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed.
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A raw string in programming allows all characters in a string literal to remain the same in code and in the material. Learn more from Webopedia.
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TypeScript is an open source programming language created by Microsoft. It is a superset of JavaScript. Learn more from Webopedia.
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Go is an open source procedural programming language designed at Google in 2007 and launched in 2009. Learn more from Webopedia.
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Rust is an open source programming language focused on performance and safety, particularly safe concurrency. Learn more from Webopedia.
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Scala is a general-purpose programming language created in 2001 to provide support for both object-oriented programming and functional programming.
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Method chaining is the practice of calling different methods in a single line in object-oriented programming languages. Learn more from Webopedia.
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JavaScript FileReader lets developers build applications and website elements that run from your browser. Learn more at Webopedia.
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The 70:20:10 model for modern learning and development espouses that students and employees learn best (70%) from doing specifically, on-the-job...
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Short for education technology, edtech is a term that refers to modern learning environments that incorporate technology in a variety...
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Social learning is the process of learning through collaboration and interaction with others. Social learning isn t limited to just...
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The Tin Can API, or Experience API, refers to a project developed to help organizations track and analyze the learning behavior of users and customers.
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In technology development, full stack refers to an entire computer system or application from the front end to the back...
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Cyber security boot camps, also known as security bootcamps, are structured and intensive programs designed to help students gain key...
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Coding boot camps, or coding bootcamps, are structured and intensive educational programs designed to help students gain key programming and...
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Information technology (IT) boot camps, also known as coding boot camps, are intensive, short-term training programs in information technology fields....
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Abstract data types are mathematical models of a set of data values or information that share similar behavior or qualities...
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A static data structure is an organization or collection of data in memory that is fixed in size. This results...
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A dynamic data structure (DDS) refers to an organization or collection of data in memory that has the flexibility to...
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A truth table is a logically-based mathematical table that illustrates the possible outcomes of a scenario. The truth table contains...
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Computational thinking (CT) is a study of the problem-solving skills and tactics involved in writing or debugging software programs and...
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Scratch is a free visual programming language developed to help simplify the process of creating and programming animations, games, music,...
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R is a free and open source software programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Distributed under...
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Chapel is a parallel programming language, designed to make parallel programming more productive, from high-end supercomputers to commodity clusters and...
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Zimbu is an experimental programming language developed by Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the Vim text editor. The goal of...
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Dart is an open source, structured Web programming language developed by Google and announced to the public in 2011. Google...
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The process of applying a software patch or update to an older version of software than the update was initially...
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A C++ Software Engineer is responsible for developing and/or implementing the new features to improve the existing programs and software....
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Short for Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition. J2EE is a platform-independent, Java-centric environment from Sun for developing, building and deploying...
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A personal computing programming language that was originally developed as a replacement for BASIC. ABC is suitable for beginners and...
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A free programming language for numerical analysis. It is most commonly used in aerospace and related fields. Algae got its...
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An applet is a small Internet-based program written in Java, a programming language for the Web, which can be downloaded...
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Short for Language INtegrated Query, LINQ is set of classes added to the .NET Framework 3.5 along with language enhancements...
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Partial classes and partial methods are two programming language features of .NET programming languages that make it possible for developers...
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Partial classes and partial methods are two programming language features of .NET programming languages that make it possible for developers...
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A free and open source JavaScript library that is used by Web developers to navigate HTML documents, handle events, perform...
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An open source dynamically compiled language with a trivial syntax in which advanced features can be written in the language...
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An integrated open source object-oriented application platform that provides a system for developing and deploying applications without needing to integrate...
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A language optimized for prototyping XML Web services.
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A free embeddable Java source interpreter with object scripting language features that is written in Java. BeanShell can dynamically execute...
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Formally written as it is a high-level programming language for developing interactive Web services. The bigwig language is a collection...
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A programming language syntax that is a compatible variation of the XML 1.0 syntax. ConciseXML works to eliminate what the...
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An open source programming library that is a reimplementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol, used in place of db-lib...
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Short for MIT Object Tcl, OTcl is an extension to Tcl/Tk for object-oriented programming.
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(Pronounced exo-tickle) An open source object-oriented scripting language that is based on OTcl but adds several new concepts. XOTcl was...
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Short for Programming Language for Business, PL/B is an English-like high-level programming language that offers screen, file and character string...
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A high-level programming language used for fast prototyping and program development, as well as easy data-visualization and processing. Rlab is...
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A non-proprietary object-oriented programming language that is distributed under the GPL/LGPL license. Sather was originally based on Eiffel, but now...
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Short for Set Theory as a Language (or Set Language), SETL is a high-level programming language that’s based on the...
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An interpreted programming language used for scientific applications such as simulations, calculations, post-processing, interactive scientific graphics, or translating large files...
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Short for Digital Command Language DCL is the scripting language used by most operating systems that were sold by DEC...
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A high-level programming language commissioned by NASA in the 1970’s. Hal/S is a a real-time aerospace programming language that is...
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A high level programming language designed specifically for use in simulation environments for building large scale simulation and modeling applications....
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Short for Advanced Business Application Programming it is an object-oriented programming language used to develop applications for the SAP R/3...
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A query language for deductive databases that is based on logical facts and rules. It’s similar to Prolog which has...
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A lexically scoped interpreted programming language that supports distributed object-oriented computing. Obliq computations can roam over the network, while maintaining...
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Abbreviated as FBA a function block adapter provides the interfaces to ports, to function blocks, and a description of the...
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In software languages, a function block contains input variables, output variables, through variables, internal variables, and an internal behavior description...
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Direct Web Remoting (DWR) is a Java open source library for those wanting to develop Web sites which contain Ajax....
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Abbreviated as VBE, Visual Basic Editor is the tool used to create, modify and maintain Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)...
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Abbreviated as VBA, Visual Basic for Applications is a programming language that is similar to Visual Basic, only it is...
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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write, and for...
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In BASIC programming peek and poke are the functions used to view and alter a byte of memory. Peek displays...
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A library of GUI controls (e.g., buttons, sliders, checkboxes) that replaces the somewhat weak and inflexible AWT controls.
Short for PHP Extension and Application Repository, PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. PEAR is...
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(1) Short for Abstract Window Toolkit. The AWT is part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC), the standard API for...
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Abbreviated as RoR, Ruby on Rails (also referred to as just Rails) is an open source Web application framework, written...
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Ruby is a simple but powerful object-oriented programming language (everything in Ruby is an object), created by Yukihiro Matsumoto, who...
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A ternary operator is some operation operating on 3 inputs. It’s a shortcut for an if-else statement, and is also...
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Acronym for Plain Old Java Object. POJO, or Plain Old Java Object, is a normal Java object class (that is,...
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(skript ing lang gwij) (n.) A high-level programming language that is interpreted by another program at runtime rather than compiled...
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Short for ODRights Language, a standard for expressing content rights metadata. ODRL is a digital rights data model with an...
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Short for Procedural Language/SQL, Oracle s procedural extension to the industry-standard SQL. By adding procedural constructs to SQL, such as...
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(adj.) Used typically in reference to a computer language to mean a command or statement in the language that is...
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The GNU version of awk. The original version of gawk was written in 1986 by Paul Rubin and Jay Fenlason.
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A security measure in the Java development environment. See sandbox .
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A security measure in the Java development environment. The sandbox is a set of rules that are used when creating...
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Short for inline HTML, an advanced server-side scripting/programming language that functions as an extension to HTML, allowing the customization of...
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A development environment for programming in BASIC for handheld devices. NS Basic allows a programmer to develop and test programs...
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Short for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a collection of Internet archives that is a resource for material related to the...
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Created by Microsoft as the foundation of its .NET technology, the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an ECMA standard (ECMA-335)...
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In the development of a new computer language, it is the point at which a compiler for the language can...
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ANNA is an acronym for annotated Ada. Annotated Ada is a high-level programming language that extends Ada with various kinds...
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C# is a hybrid of C and C++, it is a Microsoft programming language developed to compete with Sun’s Java...
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Short for thousands (kilo) of lines of code. KLOC is a measure of the size of a computer program. The...
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Short for Web Services Description Language, an XML-formatted language used to describe a Web service’s capabilities as collections of communication...
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Short for Artificial Linguistic Computer Entity, an open source, natural language chatbot that relies on artificial intelligence for human interaction....
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(1) When spelled xSP, a generic term for a service provider on the Internet, such as an application service provider...
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Short for Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language. KQML is a language and protocol for exchanging information and knowledge. Programs use...
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Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML) or VoiceXML is a technology that allows a user to interact with the Internet through...
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Short for Restructured Extended Executor, an interpreted, structured, procedural script programming language created by IBM’s Mike Cowlishaw that allows programs...
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JVM is short for Java Virtual Machine. JVM is an abstract computing machine, or virtual machine. It is a platform-independent...
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(1) Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for...
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Initially, in the realm of programming languages, snarf meant to grab a large document or file and use it without...
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Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages....
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Short for A Programming Language,a programming language noted for its ability to generate matrixes — data elements presented in rows...
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An interpreted, object-oriented programming language developed by Guido van Rossum. The name comes from one of van Rossum’s favorite television...
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(1) The lowest-level instructions that directly control a microprocessor. A single machine-language instruction typically translates into several microcode instructions. In...
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Short for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multiprogramming System, a general-purpose programming language developed in the late 1960s. MUMPS is similar...
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A scripting language developed by Apple Computer that is integrated into the MacOS starting with System 7.5. AppleScript provides an...
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An interpreted programming language that is included in most versions of UNIX. The name is derived from the initials of...
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Short for Unified Modeling Language, a general-purpose notational language for specifying and visualizing complex software, especially large, object-oriented projects. UML...
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(1) Short for Report Program Generator, a programming language developed by IBM in the mid-60’s for developing business applications, especially...
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Short for Tool Command Language, and pronounced T-C-L or tickle, a powerful interpreted programming language developed by John Ousterhout. One...
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Short for SCSI Configuration Automatically, a subset of the PnP specification that provides plug-and-play support for SCSI devices.
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JScript is Microsoft ‘s extended implementation of ECMAScript (ECMA262), an international standard based on Netscape’s JavaScript and Microsoft’s JScript languages....
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An outline of a program, written in a form that can easily be converted into real programming statements. For example,...
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Short for Conference on Data Systems Languages, and pronounced code-a-sill, an organization founded in 1957 by the U.S. Department of...
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An object-oriented operating system and programming language developed at Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center. Smalltalk was the first object-oriented...
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An interpreter for the BASIC programming language provided by Microsoft with the DOS and Windows 95 operating systems. The QBASIC...
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An advanced programming language created by Bertrand Meyer and developed by his company, Interactive Software Engineering (ISE). The language was...
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An application development tool developed by Microsoft for C++ programmers. Visual C++ supports object-oriented programming of 32-bit Windows applications with...
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Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially designed for processing...
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Short for Programming Logic, Prolog is a high-level programming language based on formal logic. Unlike traditional programming languages that are...
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A Rapid Application Development (RAD) system developed by Borland International, Inc. Delphi is similar to Visual Basic from Microsoft, but...
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Short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition, a scripting language developed by Microsoft and supported by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser....
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Visual Basic is a family of programming languages developed by Microsoft. The most commonly used version of Visual Basic is...
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A high-level programming language developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the United States Defense Department. Ada was...
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A program designed to be executed from within another application. Unlike an application, applets cannot be executed directly from the...
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A programming language that is once removed from a computer’s machine language. Machine languages consist entirely of numbers and are...
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Acronym for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz in the mid 1960s at Dartmouth...
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C++ is a high-level programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor,...
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(v.) To invoke a routine in a programming language. Calling a routine consists of specifying the routine name and, optionally,...
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Acronym for common business oriented language. Developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, COBOL is the second-oldest high-level programming...
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Acronym for formula translator, FORTRAN is the oldest high-level programming language. Designed by John Backus for IBM in the late...
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Often abbreviated 4GL, fourth-generation languages are programming languages closer to human languages than typical high-level programming languages. Most 4GLs are...
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A dialect of the BASIC programming language that comes with many versions of the DOS operating system.
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A high-level language (HLL) is a programming language such as C, FORTRAN, or Pascal that enables a programmer to write...
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An interpreter is a program that executes instructions written in a high-level language. Interpreters enable other programs to run on...
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Java is a general purpose, high-level programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. It is designed to have...
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Acronym for list processor, a high-level programming language especially popular for artificial intelligence applications. LISP was developed in the early...
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A machine language or an assembly language. Low-level languages are closer to the hardware than are high-level programming languages, which...
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Machine language is the lowest-level programming language (except for computers that utilize programmable microcode). Machine languages are the only languages...
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A programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth, the author of Pascal. Wirth created Modula-2 in the late 1970s to answer...
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What is Object Oriented Programming? Object-oriented programming (OOP) refers to a type of computer programming (software design) in which programmers...
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Pronounced pass-kal. Pascal is a high-level programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s. The language is named...
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A programming language is a vocabulary and set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer or computing device to perform...
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A specialized language for requesting information from a database. For example, the query SELECT ALL WHERE age > 30 AND...
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A special word reserved by a programming language or by a program. You are not allowed to use reserved words...
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What is SQL? SQL is a standardized query language for requesting information from a database. It is an abbreviation for...
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Syntax refers to the spelling and grammar of a programming language. Computers are inflexible machines that understand what you type...
