An exercise focusing on the vocabulary of IT and programming for ESL learners. The expressions here appear in technical documentation, development team discussions, and technology business contexts.
📚 Key vocabulary API (Application Programming Interface) — a set of rules allowing different software applications to communicate and share data with each other cloud computing — the delivery of computing services including storage, servers, and software over the internet on demand agile methodology — a project management approach based on iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility to change DevOps — a set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten development cycles and improve reliability cybersecurity — the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from digital attacks and unauthorized access bandwidth — the maximum rate of data transfer across a network, typically measured in megabits per second latency — the delay between a user's action and the corresponding response from a system or network scalability — the ability of a system or network to handle an increasing amount of work or expand its capacity firewall — a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing traffic based on defined rules encryption — the process of encoding data so that only authorized parties can read it
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. Other parts of the program will be able to __________________ these objects using simple function calls.
Correct answer: work with.
2. Do a search to find every __________________ of this variable. (meaning: a list of every time the variable appears in the code)
Correct answer: instance.
3. Naming and defining a variable is called variable ____________________.
Correct answer: declaration.
4. To __________________ a function means to change its properties.
Correct answer: redefine.
5. If something is sending the wrong __________________, it is sending the wrong variables to be processed.
Correct answer: parameters.
6. A subroutine is a piece of code that is separate from __________________ of a program.
Correct answer: the main body.
7. A procedure (often referred to as a "function") is like a subroutine, but with additional __________________. Most functions can accept parameters.
Correct answer: features.
8. This function __________________ (meaning: produces) the wrong value.
Correct answer: returns.
9. A method is a function __________________ within an object.
Correct answer: contained.
10. He has been programming for 15 years and sometimes uses terms that are no longer ____________________.