Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...
— Merlin, The Coder
- API
- an Application Programming Interface (API) connects computers or software to each other. A common example is logging-in to a third-party site via Google.
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets is a programming language that is commonly used with HTML and provides styling for a web page.
- Directory
- a logical grouping of related files (and potentially other directories)
- emacs
- a powerful text editor and environment available on various operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and macOS.
- File
- either a destination or source for a stream of data, most often persisted on a storage device
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language, is one of the essential building blocks for web pages. It defines the general structure of a web page, as well as its content. Every single website on the internet uses HTML in one form or another.
- JavaScript
- a high-level programming language, which can be used to fetch data via an API, modify HTML and CSS, and is the core of modern web pages.
- PHP
- the most commonly use server-side language.
- Process
- a program that is being executed by the operating system
- Shell
- a user interface that provides access to an operating system's services.
- Syntactic Sugar
- syntax within a language which isn't strictly required but, in some manner, generally through increased clarity or readability, makes the syntax easier to understand for humans
