Computer programming terms

Updated: 04/09/2024 by Computer Hope

Programming terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 750 terms like ASCII, regex, 5GL, and delimiter. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'V' to find terms like 'variable' in the 'V' section.

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Programming language ASCII HTML Pipe NBSP Program 1GL Data type Regex Curly bracket
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A
A-0 Abend Absolute address Absolute Coding Access violation Acid ACM ActionScript Action statement ActiveX Ada Adaptive technology Add ADO Advanced SCSI Programming Interface Aggregate Agile development methods Agile Manifesto AJAX Alert Algol Algorithm Allocate Altair BASIC Ambient Occlusion AOP API APK Applet Argument Arithmetic Arithmetic operator Array Array of pointers ASCII ASM ASP ASPI Assembler Assembly Assembly language Associative operation Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ATS AutoHotkey Automata-based programming Automated unit testing Automation
B
Babel Back-end Back-face culling Background thread Backpropagation neural network Base address Basic Batch file Batch job BCPL Bean BeanShell Binary Search Bind Bit shift Bitwise operator Block Block-based programming Block-level element BOM Bool Boolean Boolean data type Bracket Branch Brooks Browse Bubble sort Bug Bugfairy Bug tracking Build computer Bytecode
C
C C++ C# Call Callback Camel book CamelCase Capture CC Cell style CGI Chaos model Char Character code Character encoding Character set Circuit satisfiability problem Class Class Classpath Clojure CLOS Closing block Closure CLR COBOL Cocoa Cocoa touch Code Code page Code refactoring CoffeeScript Command Command language Comment Common business oriented language Common Gateway Interface Commutative operation Compilation Compile Compiler Complementarity Component Compute Computer instructions Computer science Concat Concatenate Concatenation Concurrency Condition Conditional expression Conditional statement Constant Constructor Constructor chaining Content migration Control flow CPAN CPL Crapplet CS CSAT C sharp CSS CSS compressor CSS editor Curly bracket Curry CVS Cygwin
D
D DarkBASIC Dart Data-flow analysis Data flow diagram Dataflow Programming Datalog Data source Data structure Data type DDE DDK Dead code Debug Debugger Debugging Declaration Declarative programming Declare Decompiler Decrement Deductive database Delimiter Demote Dense matrix Dependent variable Deprecated Dereference operator Developer Dev Home DevOps DevOpsDays DHTML Die Diff Direct address Disassembler Discrete optimization Div Django DML Do DOM Dragon book Dribbleware Dump Dword Dylan programming language Dynamic binding Dynamic dump
E
Eclipse ECMAScript Eight queens problem Element Elixir Ellipsis Else Else if Elsif Embedded Java Encapsulation Enclosing block Encode Endian Endless loop EOF Epoch Eq Equal Erlang Error Errorlevel Esac Esc Escape Escape character Escape sequence Eval Event Event-driven programming Event handler Event listener Exception Exception handling Exec Exists Exit status Exponent Exponential backoff Expression
F
F# Factorial False False positive Feature complete Fifth generation language First-class object First generation language Flag Flat file Floating-point Foo For Foreach Foreign key Forth Forth generation language FORTRAN F programming language Framework Front end Full stack developer Function Functional programming Function call Fuzz testing
G
Game of Life Gang of four Garbage collection Gaussian pyramid GCC Ge General-purpose language Generation languages Genetic programming GIGO Git GitHub Glitch Glob Glue code Go Golang Go language Googolplex Goto GPL Grasshopper Greedy Greedy matching GT GTK GW-BASIC
H
Hackathon HAL Halting problem Hard code Hash Haskell HDML Heap Hello world Heroku Heuristic evaluation Hex editor Hiew High-level language HTML Human error Hungarian notation Hwclock Hypertext Markup Language
I
IDE Idempotence If If else If statement Immutable object Imperative programming Implicit parallelism Increment Indirect address Indirection operator Inherent error Inheritance Inline Input/output statement Instance Instantiation Instructions Instruction Storage Interrupt Int Integer Integrated Development Environment IntelliJ IDEA Intermediate language Interpreted Interpreter Invalid Io IOCCC IPC ISAPI ISI Iteration
J
Java JavaBean Javac Java champion Java EE JavaFX Java ME Java Native Interface Java reserved words JavaScript JavaScriptCore Javax JBuilder JCL JDBC JDK Jenkins JHTML JIL JIT JNI JRE JScript JSON JSP JSR Julia Jupyter JVM
K
Karel Kit Kludge Kluge Knights of Lambda Calculus Kotlin
L
Label Lambda calculus LangChain Language Language processor Large language model Lazy matching Le Lexical analysis Lexicon Library Life cycle Linker Link time LISP Literal Literal string LiveScript LLM LLVM Local optimum Logical operation Logic learning machine Logic programming LOGO Lookup table Loony bin Loop Loophole Loosely typed language Low-code Low-level language LT Lua LUT
M
m1m0 Machine language Magic quotes Map Markup language Math Matlab Mbean Memoization Mercurial Meta Metacharacter Metaclass Metalanguage Metasyntactic variable Meta tag Method Method overloading Metro Microsoft BASIC Middleware Mimo Mod Modula Modula-2 Modular programming Module Modulo Monkey testing Monte Carlo Method MSDN MSVC Multi-pass compiler Multiply MUMPS Mutex My
N
/n NaN Native compiler Native language Natural language NBSP NDA Ne Nest Nested function Nested loops join .NET Netlify Newline Nil pointer Nim Nimrod No-code Node.js Nodelist Non-contiguous data structure Non-disclosure agreement Nonexecutable statement NO-OPeration instructions NP-C NP-complete Null Null character Null pointer NumPy
O
Oberon Obfuscated code Obfuscation Object Object code Object file Objective-C Object module Object-oriented Object-oriented programming Obtuse OCaml Octave ODBC One-pass compiler OnMouseOver OOP Opcode Open Database Connectivity OpenGL polygon Operand Operation code Operator Operator associatively Operator associativity Operator precedence Order of operations OR operator Overflow error Overload
P
Package Parenthesis Parse Pascal Pascal case Pastebin P-code PDL PEAR Perl Persistent memory PersonalJava PHP Phrase tag Pick Pickling PicoJava Pipe Pipeline Pixel shader POD Pointer Polymorphism Pop Portable language Positional parameter Print Printf Private Private variable Procedural language Procedure Process Program Program generator Program listing Programmable Programmer Programming Programming in logic Programming language Programming tool Prolog Properties Pseudo-class Pseudocode Pseudolanguage Pseudo-operation Pseudorandom Public Pull PureBasic Push Python Pythonic Python pickling
Q
Qi QT Quick-and-dirty
R
/r Race condition Racket RAD Random Random seed Range Rank RCS RCW RDF React React Native Real number Recompile Recursion Recursive Regex Regular expression Reia Relational algebra Religion of Chi REM Remark Repeat counter Repetition REPL Reserved character Reserved word Resource Description Framework Return address Return statement Reverse engineering Revision control ROM BASIC Routine Routing algorithm RPG R programming language Ruby Run time Runtime callable wrapper Rust
S
Safe font Sandbox Say Scala Scalar Scanf Schema matching Scheme programming language Scratch Script SDK Second generation language Section Security Descriptor Definition Language Seed Segfault Semantics Semaphore Sentient Separator Sequence Server-side Server-side scripting Servlet S-expression SGML Shebang Shell Shell scripts Shift Short-circuit operator Signedness Simula Simulated annealing Single step Smalltalk SMIL Snippet SOAP Socket Soft Software development phases Software development process Software engineering Software library Software life cycle Software release life cycle Source Source code Source computer Source data SourceForge Spaghetti code Sparse matrix Sparsity Special purpose language SPL Spooling SQL SQLite Stack Stack pointer Standard attribute Statement Stdin Stream processing String Strongly typed language Stubroutine Stylesheet Submit Subprogram Subroutine Subscript Substring Subtract Subversion Superclass Swift Switch statement Syntactic sugar Syntax Syntax error System development Systems engineer Systems Programming Language
T
Tail recursion Tcl Tcl/Tk Tech stack Ternary Ternary operator Tessellation Theoretical computer science Third-generation programming language Thread Thunk Tk Token ToolboX Transaction Transcompiler True True BASIC Trunk Tuple Turbo Pascal Turing completeness
U
Udacity UInt8 UInt16 UInt32 Unary operator Undefined Undefined variable Underflow Unescape Unit test Unity Unreal Engine Unshift
V
Value Var Variable Variable expression Variable-length field VB VBScript Vector VHDL VIM Visual Basic Visual Studio Void Vue Vue.js
W
W3Schools Wasm Waterfall model WDF WebAssembly Web development WebGL While Whole number Wide character Windows Driver Kit WML Workspace
X
XML XNA XOR operator XOXO XSL XSLT
Y
YAML Y combinator
Z
Z-buffering Zombie

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