Chapter 3: TERMS

• ANSI- American National Standards Institue
• CPU- Central Processing Unit
• DNS- Domain Name System
• GUI- Graphic user interface
• html- hypertext markup language
• http- hypertext transfer protocol
• iso- international organization for standardization
• oop- object-oriented programming
• os- operating system
• perl- practical extraction and reporting language
• PHP- hypertext preprocessor
• sql- structured query language
• wisp- wireless internet service provider
• wma- windows media audio
• www- world wide web
• xml- extensible markup language
• Android OS- a Google's open and free software stack that includes an operating system, middleware, and key applications for use on mobile devices such as smartphone
• Blog website- an informal website consisting of time-stamped articles or post in, in any diary or journal format
• assembly language- used primarily for direct hardware manipulation and direct access to specialized processor instruction
• C programming language- a general purpose, imperative programming language developed in the early's 60s
• C is the oldest and most widely used language, providing the building blocks for other popular languages
• C sharp- a programming language based on C++ and Java that helps developers create XML web services and Microsoft's NET
• Cable modem- provide high-speed internet connections through the cable television network. This service costs about twice as much as dial-up access
• Chat room- a location on internet server that permits user to chat with each other
• Chat- a real time typed conversation that takes place on a computer or mobile device
• Computer programming language- a language used to write computer programs
• Computer programming language- it involves a computer that performs some kind of computation or algorithm and controls external devices
• C++ programming language- an intermediate-level language with object-oriented programming features, originally designed to enhance the C language
• Database- a collection of data used for automated systems
• Dial-up access - takes place when the modem in the computer uses a standard telephone line to connect to the internet
• Domain name- the text version of an IP adress
• Domain name system- the method that the internet uses to store domain names and their corresponding IP adress
• High-level language- a programming language such as C, Fortran, or Pascal that enable a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a computer
• Hypertext preprocessor - a server-side interpreted scripting language. It was designed for creating dynamic web pages that effectively work with databases
• Internet- a worldwide collection of networks that links millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions and individualls
• Internet2- a not-for-profit networking consortium in the US which aims to improve the internet, such as relieving bottlenecks in the current architecture
• Interpreter- a computer program that directly executes, performs instruction written in a programming or scripting language without previously compiling them into a machine language program
• Java programming language- a programming language that was the first introduced to the public in 1995 and is widely used to create internet application and other software programs
• Low-level language- a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture
• Netiquette- refers to the etiquette guidelines that govern behavior when communicating on the internet