Programming language/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Computer program [r]: A set of instructions to be executed by a computer. ^[e]
• Computer science [r]: The study of how computers work, and the algorithms, data structures and design principles used in their operation and programming. ^[e]
• Programming [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

See Catalog for a list of programming languages.

• Closure (computer science) [r]: A feature in some computer programming languages that allows a procedure to bind to its environment, so that it may be called (and its internal variables utilized) from anywhere within the process, instead of using C-like scope rules to limit its availability. ^[e]
• Comparison of Java and .NET [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Compiler [r]: A program that translates a human-readable instructions into machine instructions. ^[e]
• Hello World [r]: A very short program that a programmer writes when learning a programming language; it typically just prints a word or two of output to a console. ^[e]
• Late binding [r]: The assignment of data types (such as integer or string) to variables at the time of execution of a computer program, rather than during the compilation phase. ^[e]
• Pointer (computer science) [r]: The memory address of some data in computer science. ^[e]
• Source code [r]: Human-readable code which a compiler turns into a compiled piece of software or an interpreter runs. ^[e]
• Syntax (computer science) [r]: The set of allowed reserved words and possible token order in a program. ^[e]
• Type system [r]: Add brief definition or description