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User Interface (UI) - ANSWER The environment where users interact with a program. Examples include console applications, Windows applications, and Web applications. User Experience (UX) - ANSWER a ... concept in application design that evaluates a person's feelings and attitudes toward using a particular product, system, or application. UX enables the development of applications that are centered on ease of use and accessibility for the user. HTML - ANSWER Hypertext Markup Language is the core language for structuring web page content. CSS - ANSWER Cascading Style Sheets is a language that provides formatting and layout for a web page's content (HTML). JavaScript - ANSWER A language primarily known for providing event handling, form validation and programming logic in the browser, extending the functionality of web page content. However, JavaScript can also be used as a programming language on the web server for certain types of development. Front End - ANSWER The part of a web application that a user interacts with. Typically this is a website. Middle Tier - ANSWER The part of a web application that performs the actual processing of data. Back End - ANSWER The data that a user is interacting with on a web application, such as a list of customers or information about products they can purchase. Full Stack - ANSWER A web development skillset that incorporates knowledge of front end, middle tier, and back end programming. A full stack developer has enough knowledge to build a complete web application. HTTP - ANSWER Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the communications standard that browsers use to communicate with web servers, allowing them to request pages and pass user input over the Internet. HTTPS - ANSWER Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure also allows browser to communicate with web servers, but it is slower and more secure because it handles the encryption and decryption of information being passed. Web page - ANSWER A file that utilizes HTML to mark up or describe its content and can be viewed in a browser. Website - ANSWER A folder of webpages and additional resources, often hosted and available on the Web and associated with a domain name. Web Application - ANSWER A program that exists on the internet, rather than a desktop, that a user interacts with, as opposed to a static web page that never changes and only presents information. Internet - ANSWER The combined hardware and software infrastructure that provides the world's largest computer network, providing a platform for shared information and communications. Intranet - ANSWER The combined hardware and software infrastructure for a private network that provides content with a smaller distribution. World Wide Web (WWW) - ANSWER The combined collection of all website content available on the Internet. Domain - ANSWER The user-friendly name that is being rented and associated with a website available on the Web. URL - ANSWER Uniform Resource Locator - the full address of a resource on the Internet, including the domain. Hosting - ANSWER The act of making Web content available over the Internet or even over a private Intranet network. Browser(Web Client/User Agent) - ANSWER A program that can make requests for Web pages and renders the resulting HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images into a usable interface. Web server - ANSWER The software that handles hosting a website (a folder of webpages), responding with the appropriate code and resources when a request is made. Request - ANSWER An action by the browser that is routed to a web server to ask for a Web page. Often accomplished by submitting a URL in a browser's address bar or clicking a link or a button on a Web page. Response - ANSWER An action by the Web server that returns a Web page and all the necessary accompanying resources to the requesting client browser. View Source - ANSWER A browser feature that lets the user see the underlying code being used to generate the page, as delivered to the browser. Developer Tools / Inspector - ANSWER A suite browser features for developers to analyze the code and the browser's use of it. Specifically, the Inspector allows users to see how CSS and JavaScript has been interpreted in combination with the HTML. Computer Network - ANSWER When two or more computers are connected for the purpose of transmitting data electronically. Client/Server Architecture - ANSWER A computer network architecture in which each computer or process on the network is either a client or a server. The server provides the resources requested by one or more clients. Solution - ANSWER An application. A solution contains all of the basic files necessary to run a program. Project - ANSWER A division within a solution that contains one or more code files. A solution will always contain one or more projects. Source Control (aka Version Control or Revision Control) - ANSWER a set of practices and tools designed to manage changes to an application's source code over time and keep source code backed up in a safe place. Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) - ANSWER a type of version control where the complete codebase, including the full version history, is mirrored on every developer's computer. Examples incl [Show More]

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