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What do these words mean in programming context

Asked 2011-10-16T13:54:24.063
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I have learned + am learning programming on my own. I see these words often. I would appreciated if someone explained them in the context of programming:

  • Bootstrap
  • Sandbox
  • Scaffolding
  • Syntactic Sugar
  • Tear Down
  • Boiler Plate
  • VPN
  • Nightly Builds
  • Unamaged DLL, e.g.: aspnet_isapi.dll
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Honestly I don't know them all, but I can say that:

Bootstrap -> it refers to a starting process and related activities

Sandbox -> it represents a mechanism in which an application/code is contained into an area and can't access external resources/hardware/code (iPhone applications are a perfect example)

Tear down -> means destroy objects! It's fundamentally related to Unit Testing frameworks... they have a tearDown() method into which is possible to release/destroy object used for the test

Boiler Plate -> it's a block of "precooked" code that can be used as a starting point to write your own code... methods generated automatically by IDE can be considered boilerplate code

answered 2011-10-16T14:04:42.350

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