Vocabulary Words

Question 1

API

Answer 1

Application Programming Interface: enables two different programs to communicate with each other by making some parts of the website code available to developers

Question 2

Adaptive Design

Answer 2

The way in which a website is built determines how it appears on different devices.

Question 3

Bootstrap

Answer 3

is a free, open-source frontend framework for designing websites and web apps

Question 4

Backend

Answer 4

means working on server-side software, which focuses on everything you can’t see on a website. Back-end developers ensure the website performs correctly, focusing on databases, back-end logic, application programming interface (APIs), architecture, and servers.

Question 5

Browser

Answer 5

A web browser is the software used to access the internet and display web pages

Question 6

CSS

Answer 6

Cascading Style Sheets: it is a markup language responsible for the visual elements of a website

Question 7

Cache

Answer 7

temporary storage space for data

Question 8

Domain Name

Answer 8

It’s the address that users type into the browser in order to view a website

Question 9

Frontend

Answer 9

front-end developer builds the front-end portion of websites and web applications—that is, the part that users actually see and interact with.

Question 10

Full-stack

Answer 10

works across all three layers: frontend, backend, and database layer

Question 11

GIT

Answer 11

Git is a version control system where developers can store and manage their code

Question 12

HTML

Answer 12

Hypertext Markup Language: it’s a computer language used to create websites

Question 13

HTTP

Answer 13

Hypertext Transfer Protocol: is used to transfer data across the internet. HTTP sends the data (say, a HTML document or an image) from an HTTP server program (a web server) to an HTTP client program (a web browser).

Question 14

Information Architecture

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is the practice of organizing complex information in a clear and logical way. In terms of websites and apps, this means creating a user-friendly structure that makes it easy for the user to find their way around

Question 15

PHP

Answer 15

Hypertext Preprocessor: is a self-referentially acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Original it supposedly meant personal home page. It is an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages

Question 16

Site map

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is an outline of all the pages on a website

Question 17

Software stack

Answer 17

make up the backend of a website, and they are essentially bundles of software that work together

Question 18

SSL

Answer 18

Secure Sockets Layer: It’s a standard security protocol for ensuring that all data transmitted between the web server and the browser remains encrypted—and therefore unreadable to the naked eye