- A/B testing: A method of comparing two product versions, such as a website or an app, to determine which one performs better.
- Agile development: A software development method that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and rapid iteration.
- Algorithm: a set of instructions or steps that can be followed to solve a problem or accomplish a task.
- API: a set of protocols, routines, and tools for building software and applications.
- Array: a collection of items that are stored in a specific order.
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): A field of AI that aims to create machines and systems that can perform any intellectual task that a human can.
- Artificial intelligence (AI): A field of computer science that aims to create machines and systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, recognizing images and patterns, and making decisions.
- Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI): A hypothetical AI that surpasses human intelligence in every domain, including general intelligence, creativity, and problem-solving ability.
- Asynchronous: a programming paradigm where certain program parts can run independently of the main execution flow.
- Augmented Reality (AR): A technology that enhances the user’s perception of the real world by overlaying digital information, such as images, sounds, or text, on the user’s view.
- Autoencoder: A neural network architecture that can learn to compress and reconstruct data.
- Autonomous systems: A system that can operate without human intervention, using sensors, algorithms, and other technologies to make decisions and take actions.
- Blockchain security: The practice of securing the integrity and confidentiality of data stored on a blockchain.
- Blockchain: A decentralized, distributed ledger that uses cryptography to secure and validate transactions.
- Bytecode: an intermediate code generated by a compiler or interpreter that a virtual machine can execute.
- Chatbot security: The practice of securing chatbots and the sensitive data they handle.
- Chatbot: A computer program that simulates a human-like conversation with users through natural language processing and generation.
- Class: a blueprint for creating objects (often used in Object-Oriented Programming)
- Cloud computing: A model of delivering computing resources, such as storage, processing power, and applications, over the internet.
- Cloud security: Securing data and applications stored and running on cloud platforms.
- Code reuse: the ability to use existing code in new projects, rather than having to write everything from scratch.
- Comment: a line or block of text in a program that the compiler or interpreter ignores and is used to provide explanations or annotations for the code.
- Compiler: a program that converts source code into machine code that a computer can execute.
- Compression: the process of reducing the size of data for storage or transmission.
- Computer Vision: A field of AI that deals with the ability of machines to interpret and understand visual information from the world, such as images and videos.
- Conditional: a control structure that allows a program to make decisions based on certain conditions.
- Containerization: A method of packaging and deploying software and its dependencies in a portable and consistent way, using containers.
- Continuation-passing style (CPS): A programming style in which the continuation – the computation that is to be executed next – is passed explicitly as an argument to the current function.
- Continuous integration: A practice of regularly integrating and testing code changes to detect and fix errors early.
- Currying: A technique of evaluating function with multiple arguments one at a time.
- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) security: Securing systems with both computational and physical components.
- Cybersecurity: The practice of protecting computer systems and networks from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
- Data governance: The process of managing and controlling data throughout its life cycle, from creation to disposal, to ensure that it’s accurate, complete, secure, and compliant with regulations.
- Data pipeline: A series of data processing steps, such as data extraction, transformation, and loading, that are used to move and prepare data for analysis or modeling.
- Data privacy: Protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access and use.
- Data warehousing: The process of collecting, storing, and managing large amounts of data from various sources, such as transactional systems, for reporting and analysis.
- Debugging: the process of identifying and correcting errors (bugs) in a program.
- Decompression: the process of restoring the original data from compressed data.
- Decryption: the process of converting ciphertext back into plaintext.
- Deep Learning: A subfield of machine learning that deals with neural networks with multiple layers, also known as deep neural networks.
- Dependency injection: A technique in which an object supplies the dependencies of another object.
- Deserialization: the process of converting a serialized object or data structure back into its original form.
- DevOps: A set of practices and tools to improve collaboration and communication between development and operations teams.
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack: An attack in which multiple systems, often compromised through a botnet, flood a targeted system with traffic to overload it and make it unavailable.
- Distributed systems: A system that is spread across multiple devices, networks, or locations and that works together to achieve a common goal.
- Domain-specific language (DSL): A programming language or specification language that’s tailored to a particular application domain.
- Edge computing: A model of delivering computing resources closer to the edge of the network, where data is generated and consumed, to improve response times and reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted to the cloud.
- Embedded systems: A system integrated into another device, such as a car, a phone, or a washing machine, to provide specific functionality.
- Encryption: the process of converting plaintext into ciphertext to protect the data from unauthorized access.
- Event: an action or occurrence that can trigger a specific response in a program.
- Event-driven architecture: A software architecture pattern in which the application reacts to specific events, such as user actions, sensor readings, or messages from other systems.
- Exception: an abnormal event that occurs during the execution of a program, which can be handled by the program to prevent it from crashing.
- Explainable AI (XAI): A subfield of AI that deals with creating models that can provide human-understandable explanations for their predictions or decisions.
- Federated learning: A technique of training machine learning models using data from multiple sources without sharing the data.
- Framework: a set of libraries and tools that provide a standard structure for building applications.
- Function: a block of code that performs a specific task and can be reused throughout a program.
- Functional programming: A programming paradigm that emphasizes using functions, immutability, and avoiding side effects.
- Garbage collection: the process of automatically freeing up memory that is no longer being used by a program.
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): A neural network architecture that consists of two networks: a generator and a discriminator, that compete against each other to generate new, realistic data.
- Generative models: A machine learning model that can generate new data similar to the data it was trained on.
- Genetic Algorithm: A search heuristic that is inspired by the process of natural selection.
- GraphQL: A query language and runtime for APIs that allows clients to request only the data they need, rather than a fixed set of endpoints.
- Hash: a function that generates a fixed-length output from an input of any length, often used for data integrity checks and indexing.
- Higher-order function: A function that takes one or more functions as arguments and/or returns a function as its result.
- Homomorphic Encryption: A form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on ciphertext, producing an encrypted result that can be decrypted later to the same plaintext as if the computation was performed on plaintext.
- Human-computer interaction (HCI): A field of study that deals with designing, evaluating, and implementing interactive systems for human use.
- Human-robot interaction (HRI): A field of study that deals with designing, evaluating, and implementing systems that allow humans to interact with robots naturally and intuitively.
- Hyperparameter tuning: The process of optimizing the performance of a machine learning model by adjusting the values of its parameters that are not learned during training.
- Internet of Things (IoT): A network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity that enables these objects to collect and exchange data.
- Internet of Things security (IoT security): The practice of securing the devices, networks, and systems that make up the Internet of Things.
- Interpreter: a program that reads source code and executes it directly without the need for a separate compilation step.
- IoT security: Securing the devices and networks that make up the Internet of Things.
- It would be impractical to list all code terminology and related definitions as there are thousands of words, phrases and concepts used in the field of computer programming. Some commonly used terms and their definitions include:
- Iterator: an object that allows a program to traverse a collection of items, such as an array or a list.
- Knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR): A field of AI that deals with representing knowledge and making inferences with that knowledge.
- Lazy evaluation: A evaluation strategy in which an expression is only evaluated when its value is needed.
- Library: a collection of pre-written code that can be used to perform common tasks in a program.
- Loop: a control structure that allows a section of code to be executed repeatedly.
- Machine learning: A field of artificial intelligence that uses algorithms and statistical models to enable systems to learn from and make predictions or decisions based on data.
- Malware: Software specifically designed to harm or exploit the systems it infects.
- Memory leak: a situation where a program continues to allocate memory that is no longer needed, causing the program to slow down or crash.
- Method: a function that is associated with an object and can be used to perform actions on that object.
- Microservices: A software architecture in which an extensive application is broken down into small, independently deployable services.
- Monad: A design pattern in functional programming that handles computations that might fail or have side effects predictably.
- Multi-agent systems: A system that consists of multiple interacting agents, such as software or robots, that work together to achieve a common goal.
- Namespace: a container that holds a set of identifiers (variables, functions, classes, etc.) and prevents naming conflicts.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP): A field of AI that deals with the interaction between computers and human languages.
- Neural Style Transfer: Using neural networks to apply one image’s style to another.
- Neuromorphic computing: A field of computing that deals with the development of hardware and software that mimics the structure and function of the human brain.
- NoSQL: A type of database that does not use a fixed schema, allows for horizontal scalability, and is often used for big data and real-time web applications.
- Object: a data structure that contains both data and behavior (methods)
- Package: a collection of related modules that can be imported and used in a program.
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- Predictive maintenance: A technique that uses machine learning models to predict when equipment or machinery is likely to fail so that preventative maintenance can be scheduled.
- Predictive Modeling: A field of AI that creates models to predict future outcomes based on past data.
- Profiling: the process of measuring the performance and resource usage of a program to identify and optimize bottlenecks.
- Pure function: A function that, given the same input, always returns the same output and has no side effects.
- Quantum computing: A computer science field that uses quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform computation.
- Quantum key distribution (QKD): A technique for secure communication that uses the properties of quantum mechanics to generate and distribute a secret key.
- Real-time: A system that processes and responds to inputs as soon as they are received.
- Recursion: a technique where a function calls itself to solve a problem or accomplish a task.
- Refactoring: the process of modifying the structure of existing code to improve its readability, maintainability, and/or performance without changing its functionality.
- Regular expression: a sequence of characters that defines a search pattern for matching strings or parts of strings.
- Reinforcement learning: A field of AI that deals with training agents to make decisions in an environment by maximizing a reward signal.
- Responsive design: A design approach that aims to make websites and apps look and function well on various devices and screen sizes.
- Robotics process automation (RPA): The use of software robots to automate repetitive, rule-based business processes.
- Robotics: A field of engineering that deals with robot design, construction, and operation.
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- Rootkit: A type of malware designed to hide the presence of other malware or unauthorized access on a system by hiding files, processes, and network connections.
- Scalability: The ability of a system to handle an increasing amount of work or traffic by adding more resources.
- Script: a program written in a scripting language, such as JavaScript or Python, that can be run directly by an interpreter.
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS): Protocols that provide secure communications over the internet by encrypting data transmitted between a web server and a web client.
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): A security management system that aggregates and analyzes log data from various sources to identify and respond to security threats.
- Serialization: the process of converting an object or data structure into a format that can be stored or transmitted over a network.
- Serverless: A model of delivering computing resources on-demand, without the need to provision and manage servers.
- Smart cities: Cities that use technology and data to improve the quality of life for their citizens, such as by reducing traffic congestion, increasing energy efficiency, and improving public safety.
- Social Engineering: A tactic used by attackers to trick or manipulate people into divulging sensitive information or performing actions that would compromise their systems.
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN): A network architecture in which the control plane and the data plane are separated, allowing for more flexible and programmable network management.
- Syntax: the set of rules that govern the structure and organization of a programming language.
- Tail call optimization: A optimization technique in which a function call is implemented as a jump rather than a traditional subroutine call.
- Thread: a separate execution path in a program that can run concurrently with other threads.
- Transfer learning: A technique of using pre-trained models on one task as a starting point to improve the performance on a different but related task.
- Type system: A system that assigns a type to each value in a program and defines the set of operations that can be performed on values of each type.
- Unit testing: the practice of testing small, isolated code units to ensure that they function correctly and are free of bugs.
- Variable: a named location in memory that can be used to store a value.
- Version control: a system for tracking and managing changes to source code over time, allowing for collaboration, branching, and rollback.
- Virtual environment: an isolated environment where a specific version of a programming language and its dependencies can be installed and used.
- Virtual reality (VR): A technology that allows users to interact with a simulated environment using a headset or other devices.
- Virtualization: the process of creating a virtual version of a resource, such as a server, network, or operating system, that can run on a different physical resource.
- Web scraping: A technique of extracting data from websites using automated software.
- Zero-day exploit: A type of attack that takes advantage of a vulnerability in software or hardware for which no patch or fix is available.
- Zero-shot learning: A technique of training machine learning models to recognize new classes without labeled examples.
This list is not exhaustive, and the field of computer programming is constantly evolving, with new terms and concepts being introduced. It’s important to note that the definition of specific terms may vary depending on the context and the programming language being used.