Programming idioms

Iteration means repeating a process to generate a (possibly unbounded) sequence of outcomes. Each repetition of the process is a single iteration, and the outcome of each iteration is the starting point of the next iteration.

algorithmic technique in computer science of solving a problem by reducing it to a smaller instance of the same problem

design pattern in functional programming to build generic types

programming idiom for resource management that ties access to a resource to an object's lifetime

one or more bits that are used to store a binary value or code that has an assigned meaning, but can refer to uses of other data type

recurring construct of code in some programming language

process of swapping data between computer variables

computer data variable