Questions tagged as 'terminologia'

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Imperative and Declarative Paradigm

What are the differences between imperative and declarative programming paradigms? Advantages and disadvantages?     
asked by 21.08.2015 / 17:02
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What is the problem of queries N + 1?

Whenever we work with some ORM, it is common to fall into the queries N + 1 problem. It's something about performance, called up to antipattern . But what is really this problem, why it happens, what are its main causes and how, in theory,...
asked by 15.06.2018 / 05:00
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What is Basic Auth?

What is and how Basic Auth works? In what scenarios should it be used? Is it safe to use it now, since we already have OAuth and OAuth2 , among other more modern forms of authentication?     
asked by 11.11.2017 / 03:55
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What are semaphores in programming?

In a series of questions I asked to ask questions about parallelism, asynchronism, threads, and the like, I came across a lot of new knowledge and a lot of new terms. In this answer for example, someone makes an indication of the term traf...
asked by 08.06.2017 / 18:54
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What does the term "atomic" mean?

I see in some answers / questions the term "atomic". In programming, what does it really mean? Ex: comparison (4) is possible only for atomic and list types # Self increase id Mongo?     
asked by 09.11.2017 / 13:08
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What are "weak references"? When to use them?

In managed memory environments such as Java, Python, and JavaScript, I've read something about weak references (% with%). I read that it had something to do with detecting the objects that can be collected, but it was not clear. My question...
asked by 14.07.2018 / 04:03
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What is the difference between the terms "extension" and "component"?

I've received an
asked by 07.01.2016 / 00:29
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Extend x Overwritten, what's the difference?

Researching on Object Oriented concepts, I came across the following comparative, Extend (Inheritance) versus Overwritten. I found the following statement for this comparison: Extend: When we include new attributes, methods in a chil...
asked by 26.09.2015 / 22:55
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What is cyclomatic complexity?

Regarding the complexity of algorithms, I noticed that there are several quotes about cyclomatic complexity . What is cyclomatic complexity? In what situation is it important to analyze this complexity?     
asked by 29.03.2017 / 18:59
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What is the difference between ordered, unordered and sorted?

These terms are used in some data structures to define how the elements are inserted and maintained, what does each one mean? Sorted and ordered mean the same thing? Unordered does it mean it is random?     
asked by 29.11.2016 / 16:38