Questions about the meaning or usage of programming terms.
What is the difference between a heuristic and an algorithm?
algorithm definition heuristics nomenclatureQuick question: I'd like to hear your thoughts on when to use "State" versus "Status" when naming both fields such …
naming-conventions nomenclatureBefore Java methods we have something like: /** * Takes a number and returns its square root. * @param x The value to …
java documentation-generation nomenclatureI understand that abstraction is about taking something more concrete and making it more abstract. That something may be either …
oop functional-programming abstraction nomenclature generalizationYes, I know that "cdecl" is the name of a prominent calling convention, so please don't explain calling conventions to …
c++ c calling-convention nomenclature cdeclI'm confused by the GTK terminology. According to Wikipedia, there seem to be bindings to GTK+ that are called GTK (…
gtk nomenclature