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| A. An Acronym is a new word. It's often just the first letters of a phrase which are combined to make a word but it can also be abbreviations of words combined into a new word. The word is made by taking the first letters (not always all of them) of the words that make up the phrase. For example, FAQ is an abbreviation of the words Frequently Asked Questions. This way of making up new words is very common in the computer world and on the Internet too. One way to spot an acronym is that the word is usually all capital letters. |
| B A Browser is the computer program that enables you to surf the Internet. There are many browsers but the most popular are Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator. We have used these two software programs as the modles for the information on this site. If your browser does not work as we have described check your Help System for further information. |
| C Code generator is software program that creates the source code for a programming language. The most popular type for Internet development is the HTML WYSIWYG code generators. A Compiled Language is a computer language that is changed from a text file into commands a computer will understand (machine code) by a compiler. This is what is know as computer software. The most common example we are aware of on the Internet is Java Applets. When our browser encounters a Java Appellate it does not need to interpret it. This is in contrast to HTML which is an Interpreted Computer Language. |
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| F FAQ is acronym for the phrase "frequently asked questions" which is also its definition. Many Internet sites have FAQ's which contain both questions and answers. Function Keys are the row of keyboard keys at the very top of a key board. On some keyboards they are labelled F1 thru F10, other keyboards also have F11 and F12. These keys are usually used to give direct keyboard access to menu commands. To see how they work, if you have it press F11, to return to Normal mode press F11 again. |
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| H HTML is an acronym standing for Hyper-Text Markup Language. It is an interpreted language that tells Internet browsers how to organize the information that is sent to them. |
| I Internet Link Lists are pages on the Internet which contain lists of links to other pages, usually the links are organized so that pages of a similar type are all together. An Interpreted Language is a computer language that is presented to the Interpreter (a computer program) as a text file. The computer program then interprets the commands in the text file into commands (machine code) that the computer will understand. An example of this type of language is HTML. This is in contrast to a Compiled Language. |
| J A Java Appellate is a compiled computer program that you may encounter on the Internet. It is made up of Java Language commands that have been compiled into an Appellate. Most often Java Applets are used to do tasks that are not available in HTML or JavaScript. There is one other reason for using Java Applets, that is to hide the source code. Since a Java Appellate is compiled it is much more difficult to see how it accomplishes what it does. Java Script is an interpreted computer language that is used by internet browsers to provide a higher level of programming to web pages. Like Java it has many commands that are not available in HTML and like HTML you can look at the source code just by clicking the Source command from the View Menu item. The source code is opened in its own window so just close it to come back here. |
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| L Links are the addresses of web sites. Many web sites contain a Links page with addresses of web sites that are related to their own. So if you find a web site about the weather, usually, the links on that web site will also be about to weather. |
| M MIDI is a musical file format that relies on your computers sound card to provide the music. The MIDI file provides the instructions and your sound card plays the music. Modem is one of those computer words that began as an acronym and is now a word. The acronym is from the terms Modulator/Demodulator. It is the electronic machine that allows computers to communicate with each other. |
| N NavButtons (short for Navigation Button) are the images you find at the top and bottom right hand side of every page. The colored areas on them match the color behind the name of each area on RTCol, if you click on one, you will go directly to that area. The red arrows show if there is a page before or after the one you are on. If you click on a solid red arrow you will go forward or back as the arrow points. Arrows which are just outlines indicate that there is no page in the direction they point. |
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| P Pointer is a computer term meaning the "address of", much like your home address. Unlike your home address, it is almost like being there. If you write out your address when you are at school you won't suddenly be there but if you click on an Internet pointer you will suddenly be there. Internet pointers are call URL's |
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| S Source code is the phrase which refers to the text version of a computer program. This text file can then be compiled for a language like Java or left as is for an interpreted language such as HTML. |
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| U URL is an acronym for "Uniform Resource Locator". A URL is like a telephone number. Most web sites have there own URL which we see as a name or address. |
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| W WAV file are sound files. There are many other formats such as AU, AIF and MP2. All of these sound file types are similar in that they contain all the information necessary to reproduce the sound on your computer. They are like the sound formats that are used on your CD's. Usually these files are too big to allow long segments to be transmitted over the Internet. For example, a single CD could be as big as 650,000,000 bytes in a WAV file format. WYSIWYG is an acronym formed from the phrase, "What You See Is What You Get". Its a special type of HTML code generator that allows you to create web pages by positioning the text and images as you want them and it creates the HTML code for you. It makes life much simpler, you can concentrate on what you want rather then how to do it. |
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