Analysis and Development of Information Systems

Phase Design

Technical Glossary

Apprentice
ADSI

Daphne Arias

SENA- Regional

Industrial Center and Business Development

2019

Construction of a Technical Glossary

Compile: Refers to the translation process of the source code.

Source code: Lines of code that have been written in a programming language.

Compiler: Compilers are the programs responsible for making the translation of the source
code of a program, created by means of a programming language, machine language or
object code, the only type of language understood by computer processors.

Logic: It is a sequence of operations performed by hardware or software.

Logic of the hardware: They are the circuits and chips that realize the operations of
control of the computer.

Software logic: It is the sequence of instructions in a program.

Algorithm: Set of instructions in a language which express the logic of a program.

Databases: Collective storage of data that are required to cover process requirements and
information retrieval.

Field: Space in the memory used to temporarily store a data during the process, its content
varies during the execution of the program.

Numeric field: You can only store values or digits.

IDE: Integrated development environment where the programmer works the source code of
a program.