hello world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is the “hello world” of parallel programming. It is a simple array assignment used to demonstrate the distribution of data among multiple tasks and the communications required to accomplish it.
ref: 1999, R. Michael Hord, “Appendix”, in Understanding Parallel Supercomputing (IEEE Press Understanding Science & Technology Series), Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE Press, →ISBN, page 301:
text: The Land attack is famous for two reasons: It is a very elegant one or two-packet kill, and it is the “hello world” of intrusion-detection filters.
ref: 2001, Stephen Northcutt, Judy Novak, Donald McLachlan, “[Denial of Service] Elegant Kills”, in Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst’s Handbook, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: New Riders, →ISBN, page 249:
text: float[] blurKernel = { // the 'hello world' of Image Ops :) […] Chapter 30 is about online chat, the “hello world” of network programming.
ref: 2005, Andrew Davison, Killer Game Programming in Java™ (Java Gaming & Graphics Programming), Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, pages 157 and 769:
text: I was going to make a Pong game, but I am so sick of Pong for the “hello world” of games, I thought why not a lunar lander game?
ref: 2006, André LaMothe, Game Programming for the Propeller Powered HYDRA: A Guide to Developing Games, Graphics, and Media Applications for the HYDRA Game System, [Rocklin, Calif.]: Parallax Inc., →ISBN, page 455:
text: Thus, our goal for each experiment is to get a single LED blinking; this is the “hello world” of hardware.
ref: 2006, André LaMothe, The Black Art of Video Game Console Design, [Carmel, Ind.]: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 511:
text: The “hello world” of reduce() is its use of a simple addition function or its lambda equivalent seen earlier in this chapter: • def mySum(x,y): return x+y • lambda x,y: x+y […] Using Twisted to implement our tiny simplistic example is like using a sledgehammer to pound a thumbtack, but you have to get started somehow, and our application is the equivalent to the “hello world” of networked applications.
ref: 2007, Wesley J. Chun, Core Python Programming, 2nd edition, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, pages 448 and 737:
text: Simple calculations and currency conversions have become the “hello world” of web service examples.
ref: 2007, Dierk König with Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, and Jon Skeet, Groovy in Action, New York, N.Y.: Manning Publications Co., →ISBN, page 448:
text: Trivial race between two increments. A version of this program appears in many books on concurrency or operating systems; it is the “hello world” of race conditions.
ref: 2008, Mauro Pezzè, Michal Young, Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles, and Techniques, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 131:
text: Plus, I also got tired of reading books, articles, and blog posts that use blog engines or some sort of content management system as the example to teach everything. The blog engine has become the “hello world” of today’s programming book.
ref: 2009, Emad Ibrahim, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer™), Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of Hello World.