computer science — computer scientist. the science that deals with the theory and methods of processing information in digital computers, the design of computer hardware and software, and the applications of computers. [1970 75] * * * Study of computers, their… … Universalium
COMPUTER SCIENCE — The term Computer Science encompasses three different types of research areas: computability, efficiency, and methodology. General Introduction Computability deals with the question of what is mechanically computable. The most natural way to… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
computer science — noun the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures • Syn: ↑computing • Topics: ↑computer, ↑computing machine, ↑computing device, ↑data processor, ↑electronic computer, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Garbage (computer science) — Garbage, in the context of computer science, refers to objects, data, or other regions of the memory of a computer system (or other system resources), which will not be used in any future computation by the system, or by a program running on it.… … Wikipedia
Closure (computer science) — In computer science, a closure (also lexical closure, function closure, function value or functional value) is a function together with a referencing environment for the non local variables of that function.[1] A closure allows a function to… … Wikipedia
Whitespace (computer science) — In computer science, whitespace is any single character or series of characters that represents horizontal or vertical space in typography. When rendered, a whitespace character does not correspond to a visual mark, but typically does occupy an… … Wikipedia
Bar — may refer to:* A rod/stick, pole, or handrail made of structural steel ** Grab bar ** Rebar * an ingot or gold bar * Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic * Bar (establishment), a retail establishment which serves alcoholic … Wikipedia
Garbage collection (computer science) — This article is about garbage collection in memory management. For garbage collection in an SSD, see garbage collection (SSD). For other uses, see garbage collection. In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory… … Wikipedia
Namespace (computer science) — For namespaces in general, see Namespace. A namespace (sometimes also called a name scope) is an abstract container or environment created to hold a logical grouping of unique identifiers or symbols (i.e., names). An identifier defined in a… … Wikipedia
This (computer science) — In many object oriented programming languages, this (or self) is a keyword which can be used in instance methods to refer to the object on which the currently executing method has been invoked. C++, and programming languages which derive from it… … Wikipedia
