Computer science is to programming as physics is to mechanical engineering. Computer science is theoretical, it takes a scientific and mathematical approach to information and it's computation. Computer programming is practical, it is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.

Aug 11, 2011 · It's a just a difference in terminology. In this context assets are the non-source code resources you use in your solution. We follow a /res/ name convention, which typically stores javascript, css, images, and more.

In programming, a good example is the difference in details between machine code and the various tools for creating applications that are ultimately based on machine code. Consider creating a Windows Form application with the Visual Studio IDE.

I've been talking about invariants between runs of the program. But when you hear someone say invariants they probably mean something that holds through out the lifetime of the program. An invariant is something you can write a predicate for that returns false only when the program is …

Oct 12, 2011 · You did not specify whether you only refer to programming languages or to general languages used in programming, so my answer is about data languages (such as XML, RDF, data type systems etc.): Brian L. Meek in his seven golden rules for producing language-independent standards (1995) writes that "one language's syntax can be another's semantics".

Feb 13, 2012 · This is technically inaccurate when spoken of in terms of computer science. A flight simulator isn't an emulation, because all input/output is manged through a purpose built program - the simulator - which doesn't exactly replicate the behavior of the aircraft it's modeled on, as it doesn't implement the exact same computer programs the ...

Jul 5, 2015 · In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronizing in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the …

Error: “A difference…between a computed result and the correct result” Fault: “An incorrect step, process, or data definition in a computer program” Failure: “The [incorrect] result of a fault” Mistake: “A human action that produces an incorrect result”

Apr 29, 2012 · "Scheme" is rarely used in programming, except to refer to the sub-genus of LISP languages called Schemes (Racket, formally PLT, being perhaps the best known implementation of the Scheme language standard).

In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for humans to use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in …