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Founded in 1946, the IEEE Computer Society is a professional organization for computing professionals. Based in Washington, DC, it's the largest of IEEE’s 38 societies organized under the IEEE Technical Activities Board. The IEEE Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and ...
To assign a value to an identifier. For example, to assign a value to a parameter or to assign an absolute address to a symbolic address in a computer program.
Industry:Computer; Software
To assign an operator, identifier, or literal more than one meaning, depending -upon the data types associated with it at any given time during program execution.
Industry:Computer; Software
To cause a computer program to resume execution after a using status and results recorded at a checkpoint.
Industry:Computer; Software
To detect, locate, and correct faults in a computer program. Techniques include use of breakpoints, desk checking, dumps, inspection, reversible execution, single-step operation, and traces.
Industry:Computer; Software
To determine the syntactic structure of a language unit by decomposing it into more elementary subunits and establishing the relationships among the subunits. For example, to decompose blocks into statements, statements into expressions, expressions into operators and operands.
Industry:Computer; Software
To incorporate a computer program construct into another construct of the same kind. For example, to nest one subroutine, block, or loop within another; to nest one data structure within another.
Industry:Computer; Software
To initialize a computer system by clearing memory and reloading the operating system. Derived from bootstrap.
Industry:Computer; Software
To modify the form or format of computer code, data, or documentation; for example, to insert, rearrange, or delete characters.
Industry:Computer; Software
