ANSI

American National Standards Institute

app

The extension in the file names of Macintosh applications

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

bit

Contraction of “binary” and “digit”, the unit of information in computing

C99

ANSI C standard of 1999

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

e.g.

“Exempli gratia,” Latin for “for the sake of example”

exe

The extension in the file names of Windows applications

GCC

GNU compiler collection

GNU

GNU is not Unix

GUI

Graphical user interface

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

i.e.

“Id est,” Latin for “that is”

ID

Identifier

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

ISBN

International Standard Book Number

JDK

Java Development Kit

JRE

Java Runtime Environment

JSP

JavaServer Pages

K&R

The C Programming Language, Second Edition, by B. W. Kernighan & D. M. Ritchie (Prentice Hall Software Series)

MinGW

Minimalist GNU for Windows

MSVC

Microsoft Visual C

OO

object oriented

PC

personal computer

URL

Universal Resource Locator

W3C

The Worldwide Web (“WWW” = “W3”) Consortium

XHTML

HTML conforming to the XML standard

XML

Extended Markup Language