FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Jump to: navigation, search Wikibooks has more about this subject: Computer programming Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... Jump to: navigation, search A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ... // A computer program or software program (usually abbreviated to a program) is a step-by-step list of instructions written for a particular computer architecture in a particular computer programming language. ... A software suite is a collection of computer programs, usually applications of related functionality, often sharing a more-or-less common user interface and some ability to exchange data with each other smoothly. ... An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as an integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment) is computer software to help computer programmers develop software. ... API with 3 clients, using the Unified Modeling Language notation An application programming interface (API) is a set of definitions of the ways one piece of computer software communicates with another. ... Notepad is the standard text editor for Microsoft Windows A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ... A source code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs by programmers. ... A programming tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, or maintain other programs and applications. ... Jump to: navigation, search A diagram of the operation of a typical multi-language compiler. ... Compiler optimization techniques are optimization techniques that have been programmed into a compiler. ... An interpreter is a computer program that executes other programs. ... Jump to: navigation, search In computer science, parsing is the process of analyzing a continuous stream of input (read from a file or a keyboard, for example) in order to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given formal grammar. ... In computer science, a linker or link editor is a program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program. ... An assembler is a computer program for translating assembly language — essentially, a mnemonic representation of machine language — into object code. ... Jump to: navigation, search A debugger is a computer program that is used to debug (and sometimes test or optimize) other programs. ...
Software Development is founded on Programming Software
Jump to: navigation, search An instruction is a form of communicated information that is both command and explanation for how an action, behavior, method, or task is to be begun, completed, conducted, or executed. ... Command has multiple meanings: An order. ... In engineering and computer science, an implementation is the practical application of a method or algorithm to fulfill a desired purpose. ... Execution in computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual computer carries out the instructions of a computer program. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Software development life cycle. ... Software architecture is a coherent set of abstract patterns guiding the design of each aspect of a larger software system. ... Software reliability is one of a number of aspects of computer software which can be taken into consideration when determining the quality of the software. ... Quality in computer software is a controversial field. ... Jump to: navigation, search testing is a process used to help identify the correctness, completeness and quality of developed computer software. ... Software maintenance is one of the activities in software engineering, and is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... In computing, optimization is the process of modifying a system to improve its efficiency. ... Software brittleness is the ironic term that describes the increasing difficulty of fixing older software. ... Jump to: navigation, search Software engineering is the profession that creates and maintains software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, and other fields. ... Programming style (also called coding standards or code convention) is a term that describes conventions for writing source code in a certain programming language. ... A programming paradigm is a paradigmatic style of programming (compare with a methodology which is a paradigmatic style of doing software engineering). ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ...
Since it takes several years on the average for a software patent to be granted, this is a serious problem: a developer could begin designing a large program after a patent has been applied for, and release the program before the patent is approved.
For example, a program to analyze human speech might infringe the patent on a speedup in the Fast Fourier Transform; so might a program to perform symbolic algebra (in multiplying large numbers); but the category to search for such a patent would be hard to predict.
Software is built from ideal infallible mathematical components, whose outputs are not affected by the components they feed into.
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