. A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...

Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves...

Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation...

In computer programming, a function (also procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram) is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined...

In computer programming, a comment is a human-readable explanation or annotation in the source code of a computer program. They are added with the purpose...

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation). Modern digital electronic...

Dirk Luesebrink, Hendrik Tramberend and Steffen Meschkat using Onyx Computers developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. Terravision was developed starting...

A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronically, electromagnetically, or optically accessible memory. This contrasts...

In computer programming, a parameter or a formal argument is a special kind of variable used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided...

An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than...

The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms...

History of Functional Programming Languages" (PDF). International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7829...

A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Programming languages are described in terms of their syntax (form) and...

object from a class, some programming contexts support object creation by copying (cloning) a prototype object. Computer programming portal Class diagram –...

similarity has been explained by programming language theorists in terms of existential types. In object-oriented programming languages, and other related...

International Series in Computer Science. pp. 52–54. ISBN 0-13-629049-3. Bloch, Joshua (2018). "Effective Java: Programming Language Guide" (third ed...

(1979) [1975]. Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design. Yourdon Press. Bibcode:1979sdfd.book.....Y....

In computer programming, a callback is a function that is stored as data (a reference) and designed to be called by another function – often back to the...

chess-like games were software programs running on digital computers early in the vacuum-tube computer age (1950s). The early programs played so poorly that even...

The Palace is a computer program to access graphical chat room servers, called palaces, in which users may interact with one another using graphical avatars...

In computer science, conditionals (that is, conditional statements, conditional expressions and conditional constructs) are programming language constructs...

surviving Unix language program. When its home Bell Labs received a PDP-11, dc—written in B—was the first language to run on the new computer, even before an...

variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming, with go to Statements In computer science, a pointer...

Bradford was a computer program written and sold in the 1980s by Aaron Contorer and his firm, Contorer Computing. It was one of the first programs sold using...

Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go. The field...

A "Hello, World!" program is generally a simple computer program that emits (or displays) to the screen (often the console) a message similar to "Hello...

Program analysis tools are extremely important for understanding program behavior. Computer architects need such tools to evaluate how well programs will...

A software bug is a design defect (bug) in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a...

Simulations with Thousands of Atoms) is an original method and its computer program implementation, to efficiently perform electronic structure calculations...

Fundamental areas of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines...