Meaning of Hello, World | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“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.”

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