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Computing Keywords
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- 1Stringa sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.
- 2High Level Languagea language that enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer.
- 3Low Level Languagea programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture.
- 4Compilera computer program (or a set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language.
- 5Interpretera computer program that directly executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language.
- 6Variablea value that can change, depending on conditions or on information passed to the program.
- 7Constanta value that cannot be altered by the program during normal execution.
- 8Arithmetic Operatora mathematical function that takes two operands and performs a calculation on them.
- 9Floata term is used in various programming languages to define a variable with a fractional value.
- 10Intergera datum of integral data type, a data type which represents some finite subset of the mathematical integers.
- 11Selectiona question is asked, and depending on the answer, the program takes one of two courses of action, after which the program moves on to the next event.
- 12Booleana data type, having two values (usually denoted true and false), intended to represent the truth values of logic and Boolean algebra.
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