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8. Codecademy: HTML & CSS Flashcards

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URL

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Uniform Respurce Locator

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Domain

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The part of the URL specifying the location of the web server responding to an HTTP request

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IP Address

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Definitive address of a computer or server

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DNS

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Domain Naming System

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What does the DNS do?

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Maps the human-readable domain name to the IP address of the server hosting the domain.

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HTTP

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HyperText Transfer Protocol

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What is HTTP?

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It’s the protocol for data communication between clients(website users) and servers(website hosts).

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What differentiates HTTPS from HTTP?

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Data exchanged with this protocol is securely encrypted by TLS or SSL standards to authenticate the site and protect the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

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TLS

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Transfer Layer Security

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SSL

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Secure Sockets Layer

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What are TLS and SSL?

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Cryptographic protocols that provide communications security over a computer network.

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POP

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Post Office Protocol: Email fetching from mail server that deletes the server’s copy once moved to the destination.

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IMAP

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Internet Messaging Access Protocol: Cloud based email fetching, where email is fetched and also kept in the server, with read and replied labeling on both ends.

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API

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Application Programming Interface: Allows communication between websites and computers without the styling of human-readable pages.

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Web Server

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The computer hosting the website or application which receives and responds to the incoming HTTP requests from browsers and other applications.

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Bugs

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Problems, often syntax issues and typos, in code which lead to errors in computer software or hardware.

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(the) Cloud

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Server space accessible through the web where data can be stored to free up disk space on computers and devices. Websites hosted on cloud servers have faster up/downloading speeds and have less downtime due to data being mirrored across many servers.

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Cookies

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Small pieces of data sent from a website to a browser, to allow the server to remember or authenticate a client’s information.

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404 Error

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Error printed to client browser by server when a webpage that doesn’t exist is requested.

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SEO

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Search Engine Optimization: increasing the visibility of a website in a browser’s unpaid search results by improving keyword relevance in source code, metadata and site content which will help it be properly indexed by web crawlers.

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web crawler

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An Internet bot, sometimes called a spider, that systematically browses the web in order to keep indexes of web pages up to date.

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WYSIWYG

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“What you see is what you get”; acronym is used as a noun, categorizing text editors and site builders which allow building and editing of the “real” visual version of the text or content (vs coding in HTML/CSS etc and having to use a browser to see what it looks like client side).

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Responsive Design

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Optimizing the usability and readability of your site or app for functionality across screen sizes utilizing browser specifications.

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Grid

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A system used for website elements to be visually aligned in different styles.

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RGB

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Unique identification of colors on screen using a red/green/blue index from 0 - 255 corresponding to display levels of each color for a particular element (like fonts and backgrounds)

e.g., rgb(210, 140, 28)

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Hex

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Hexadecimal; a 16 digit scale from 0-9. And a-f representing unique identifiers for colors in a six digit code, where each of the three pairs of digits corresponds with an RGB color.

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Above the fold

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A newspaper term meaning everything on the top half of the front page, and on the web this refers to everything on the starting point of the webpage before a client has to scroll.

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GUI

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Graphical User Interface; the visual interface that has replaced the command line interface for most everyday computer user interaction.

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CSS

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Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language which specifies how HTML should be displayed by the browser.

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JavaScript

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The de facto scripting language used to make websites into interactive dynamic web apps

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AJAX

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Asynchronous JavaScript And XML; transfers data via the XMLHTtpRequest object that allows for data transfers and webpage updates without browser refresh

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Pseudo-code

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Notation resembling a simplified programming language used in program design, essentially mapping out problems before solving them with actual coding language.

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C

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A low-level (not far from machine level code), cross platform, imperative programming language used for things like operating systems and other expansive software programs.

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Ruby

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A high-level (human friendly), cross platform, general purpose programming language

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Programming Paradigms

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A way to classify programming languages according to the style of computer programming, including imperative, functional, declarative, object oriented, procedural and logic.

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OOP

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Object Oriented Programming; a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects which may contain data in the form of fields (attributes) and code in the form of procedures (methods).

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Ruby Gems

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Gems are helpful libraries of useful Ruby code that can be plugged in to your applications.

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Abstraction

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A technique for managing complexity of computing systems by establishing a level of complexity on which a person interacts with the system, suppressing the more complex details below the current level.

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Software Frameworks

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An abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. They are universal, reusable software environments that provide functionality as part of a larger software platform to facilitate development of apps, products and solutions.

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Ruby on Rails

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An MVC web application framework written in Ruby.

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MVC

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Model View Controller; a software architectural pattern for implementing UI, providing default structures for a database, web services, and web pages.

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UI

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User Interface

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UX

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User Experience

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CLI

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Command Line Interface

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Version Control

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The task of keeping a software system consisting of many versions and configurations well organized.

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Git

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A free and open source version control system that is used for software development and other version control tasks

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GitHub

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The de facto cloud based repository for Git files.

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OOS

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Open Source Software; computer software with its source code made available under a license in which the copyright holder provides rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

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