LovelaceTuring · January 3, 2020 13:20
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 // VOCAB LIST

 /* 
 Programming: is the act of constructing a program—a set of precise instructions telling a computer what to do.

 Programming Language: is an artificially constructed language used to instruct computers.

 Best Practices: a composed set of rules, prescribing the form programs should have.

 Vanilla JavaScript: what comes with JS - "out of the box".

 ECMAScript: a standardized version of JS -  interchangeable with name "JavaScript".

 NodeJS: an environment for running JS outside of the browser.

 MongoDB/CouchDB: two databases which use JS as the scripting and query languages.

 Code: the text that makes up programs.

 Data: facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.

 Bits: are any kind of two-valued things, usually described as zeros and ones.

 A note on memory:  A typical modern computer has more than 30 billion bits in its volatile data storage (working memory). Nonvolatile storage (the hard disk or equivalent) tends to have yet a few orders of magnitude more.

 Value: a chunk of information (in this case, in a JavaScript environment).

 Number: a numeric type of value.

 Operators (e.g. +,-,*,/,%): Putting an operator between two values will apply it to those values and produce a new value.

 Modulo: an arithmetic operator which gives the remainder after dividing one number by another.

 Special Numbers (e.g. Infinity, -Infinity, NaN):  are considered numbers but don’t behave like normal numbers.

 Strings:  are used to represent text. They are written by enclosing their content in quotes(',",`).

 Escaping a character: inside of a string, a character preceded by a backslash (\) is given special significance. 

 Unicode Standard: assigns a number to virtually every character you would ever need, including characters from Greek, Arabic, Japanese, Armenian, and so on. If we have a number for every character, a string can be described by a sequence of numbers.

 Concatenate: glue two strings together.

 Template Literal: a string encased in backticks, as opposed to single or double quotes.

 Binary Operator: operators that use two values.

 Unary Operator: operators that use one value.

 console.log: a method for logging things to the console, and thus making them viewable.

 Boolean: type of value, which has just two values,true and false, which are written as those words.

 Comparison: a way to compare two values, which results in a boolean value.

 Logical Operators (e.g. !, &&, ||): operators which can be applied to boolean values themselves.

 Ternary Operator (conditional operator): only such operator, first value picks second or third, based on its being true or false.

 Empty Values (e.g. null, undefined): used to denote the absence of a meaningful value - used interchangeably for now.

 Type Coercion: When an operator is applied to the “wrong” type of value, JavaScript will quietly convert that value to the type it needs, using a set of rules that often aren’t what you want or expect. 

 Short Circuiting Evaluation: only certain parts of a boolean expression (&&, ||) are evaulated. See examples for more details. (null || "agnes", "Agnes" || "user", false && "script")
 */
	// VOCAB LIST

	/*
	Programming: is the act of constructing a program—a set of precise instructions telling a computer what to do.

	Programming Language: is an artificially constructed language used to instruct computers.

	Best Practices: a composed set of rules, prescribing the form programs should have.

	Vanilla JavaScript: what comes with JS - "out of the box".

	ECMAScript: a standardized version of JS - interchangeable with name "JavaScript".

	NodeJS: an environment for running JS outside of the browser.

	MongoDB/CouchDB: two databases which use JS as the scripting and query languages.

	Code: the text that makes up programs.

	Data: facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.

	Bits: are any kind of two-valued things, usually described as zeros and ones.

	A note on memory: A typical modern computer has more than 30 billion bits in its volatile data storage (working memory). Nonvolatile storage (the hard disk or equivalent) tends to have yet a few orders of magnitude more.

	Value: a chunk of information (in this case, in a JavaScript environment).

	Number: a numeric type of value.

	Operators (e.g. +,-,*,/,%): Putting an operator between two values will apply it to those values and produce a new value.

	Modulo: an arithmetic operator which gives the remainder after dividing one number by another.

	Special Numbers (e.g. Infinity, -Infinity, NaN): are considered numbers but don’t behave like normal numbers.

	Strings: are used to represent text. They are written by enclosing their content in quotes(',",`).

	Escaping a character: inside of a string, a character preceded by a backslash (\) is given special significance.

	Unicode Standard: assigns a number to virtually every character you would ever need, including characters from Greek, Arabic, Japanese, Armenian, and so on. If we have a number for every character, a string can be described by a sequence of numbers.

	Concatenate: glue two strings together.

	Template Literal: a string encased in backticks, as opposed to single or double quotes.

	Binary Operator: operators that use two values.

	Unary Operator: operators that use one value.

	console.log: a method for logging things to the console, and thus making them viewable.

	Boolean: type of value, which has just two values,true and false, which are written as those words.

	Comparison: a way to compare two values, which results in a boolean value.

	Logical Operators (e.g. !, &&, \|\|): operators which can be applied to boolean values themselves.

	Ternary Operator (conditional operator): only such operator, first value picks second or third, based on its being true or false.

	Empty Values (e.g. null, undefined): used to denote the absence of a meaningful value - used interchangeably for now.

	Type Coercion: When an operator is applied to the “wrong” type of value, JavaScript will quietly convert that value to the type it needs, using a set of rules that often aren’t what you want or expect.

	Short Circuiting Evaluation: only certain parts of a boolean expression (&&, \|\|) are evaulated. See examples for more details. (null \|\| "agnes", "Agnes" \|\| "user", false && "script")
	*/