Fundamental areas of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines...

In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of objects...

In mathematical optimization and computer science, heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for problem solving more quickly...

Computer science and engineering (CSE) or Computer Science (CS) also integrated as Electrical engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in some universities...

Computer graphics is a sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content. Although the term...

In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name...

In computer science, an integer is a datum of integral data type, a data type that represents some range of mathematical integers. Integral data types...

In computer programming, a macro (short for "macro instruction"; from Greek μακρο- 'long, large') is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input...

Theoretical computer science is a subfield of computer science and mathematics that focuses on the abstract and mathematical foundations of computation...

In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated...