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...a problem which is trivial for a human to solve, but very difficult for a computer program (see [[artificial intelligence]]). ...[[computer security|exploit]] those services will often attempt to write a computer program that can automatically register for and use said services. CAPTCHAs are on

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...s also a result of the fact that an interpreter is itself is a typically a computer program that runs in a loop of the form: An interpreter, however, can also be part of the larger whole of a computer program or software system. The key quality of an interpreter is its immediacy of

A '''Hello World''' computer program, as first introduced in the book ''The C Programming Language'', is a very

...r limited question about the predictability of the future operation of a [[computer program]]: whether it is possible to tell, from just examining a particular program

...e same copyleft. Under this philosophy, the GPL grants the recipients of a computer program the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure the

A '''software bug''' is an error in a computer program. The term comes from hardware engineering, where a design flaw in a circuit

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...at they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program".</blockquote>

* [[Ada Lovelace|Lovelace, Ada]] (1815-1852) - wrote first computer program (instructions for calculating Bernoulli numbers on a Babbage machine)

Since only a small percentage of the variables within a computer program are used at one time, there is an opportunity to place multiple variables i ...n problem is to assign a register or memory location to each variable in a computer program, in such a way that no two interfering variables share a register or memory

...erence''' is a commonly observed pattern in [[RAM|memory]] accesses by a [[computer program]] over time. The idea is, that memory accesses that happen close to one an

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'''Unit testing''' of computer [[software]] ensures that a component of a [[computer program]] works as intended. For example, a [[square root]] function should return ...risky venture into a valuable and risk-free process. The structure of the computer program can be changed radically, with no chance of introducing [[software defect]]

...according to [[instruction (computer science)|instructions]] known as a [[computer program|program]] is the definition of 'computer'. However, this definition may onl

Suppose that a computer program had an expression of the form <math>A \times X \times B</math>, where ''A''

A '''computer simulation''' or a '''computer model''' is a [[computer program]] that attempts to [[simulation|simulate]] an abstract [[model (abstract)|m

...urer, and often only work for a specific model or set of models of GPU. A computer program (such as a [[video game|game]]) will generally use either [[OpenGL]] or [[D