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Terminology

Tero Niemi edited this page Aug 26, 2022 · 5 revisions

Software

  • SSH (Secure shell protocol)
    A way to connect to another systems via username/password or username/public key/private key combinations.

  • Git (distributed version control system)
    A way to share (and track) software code between multiple developers.

Python

Variable types

  • Numbers

  • Strings

  • List
    (Also called as: array, vector, ...)

  • Dict(ionary)
    (Also called as: associative array, hashtable, map, key-value-storage, ...)

  • Class
    Definition of a data type that encapsulates (into one entity):

    • properties (Also called as: attributes, variables)
    • methods (Also called as: functions)
  • Object
    An instance (single item) of a class.