This ongoing post covers of some of the words, phrases and jargon I hear as a programmer from day to day 1. So, if you want to break into programming, make sure you learn some of these words and phrases that litter the programmo-sphere. It might just help you get past the gatekeepers.
- Orthogonal
- Orders of magnitude
- Idiomatic
- It scales
- Close to the metal
- Blazing fast
- Footguns
- Impossible states
- Modelling state
- State machines
- Stateless
- Idempotent
- Factories
- Fixtures
- Clusters
- Piping
- The unix philosophy
And of course, let's not forget the acronyms.
- API
- OOP
- CRUD
- IDE
- UI
- GUI
- TUI
- SSH
- TLS
- HTTP/S
- IIFE
- FIFO/FILO
- DOM
- AJAX
- CORS
- ETL
- KYC
- FTP
- POJO, PORO, etc
Footnotes
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Yes, this is satire.