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Meaning of Hello, World | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Examples

“Whenever I sit down with a new graphics system, I write what I believe to be the “Hello, World” of graphics programs: a simple cube spinning around the origin of a world-space coordinate system.”
“For this reason, and because it’s fairly easy to implement with a small amount of coding, Finger has become the ‘Hello, World’ of socket programming.”
“Chapter 4, “Building a Simple Plug-In,” presents the “Hello, World” of plug-ins—loaded with instrumentation to make the calls from Navigator visible.”
“The “Hello, World” of the communications field is to send an AT command to a modem and get back a response, so we will take care of this formality first.”
“The CGI script in Example 9-1 is sort of the “Hello, World” of dynamic web programming. It lets the user enter text in an HTML form, submit the form, and see the resultant text in the server’s response.”
“To give you a quick glimpse of how the API is used, without yet explaining things in detail, let us introduce the “Hello, World” of M3G. This piece of code, shown below, is possibly the shortest fully functional M3G animation player you can write. The midlet first loads a complete scene from a .m3g file, and then proceeds to animate and render it at the maximum frame rate until the user presses a key.”
“In fact, Tetris clones are often used as the “Hello, World” of game programming, serving as the introduction to game development for most programmers.”
“The "Hello, World" of Google Maps / The easiest way to start learning about the Google Maps API is to see a simple example. The following web page displays a 500x300 […]”
“The next part of your program is the definition of the methods of the HelloWorld class, which in this case loads the font from a TTF file, sets the background color of your program, and then actually writes the text to the screen. […] And that’s the “Hello, World” of openFrameworks. […] The tones are a sort of “Hello, World” for the Sound Object library.”
“Listing 5-1. The “Hello, World” of iGoogle Gadgets […] In this simple gadget, the metadata area consists solely of a ModulePrefs element with a single attribute, title.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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