Hello, World
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1995, Jonathan Blossom, “Spinning a Cube”, in Engines of Creation, Corte Madera, Calif.: Waite Group Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: 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.
ref: 1996, Rafael Fiol, “WinSock Internet Programming”, in Visual C++ 4 MasterClass, Birmingham: Wrox Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 650:
text: Chapter 4, “Building a Simple Plug-In,” presents the “Hello, World” of plug-ins—loaded with instrumentation to make the calls from Navigator visible.
ref: 1997, Michael Morgan, Netscape™ Plug-Ins Developer’s Kit, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Corporation, →ISBN, page 100:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python Programming on Win32 (Help for Windows Programmers), Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 373:
text: 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.
ref: 2003, Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams, Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason (Component-Based Templating System), Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 172:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, Kari Pulli, Tomi Aarnio, Ville Miettinen, Kimmo Roimela, Jani Vaarala, Mobile 3D Graphics with OpenGL ES and M3G, Burlington, Mass.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, →ISBN, page 276:
text: In fact, Tetris clones are often used as the “Hello, World” of game programming, serving as the introduction to game development for most programmers.
ref: 2008, Joseph Hall, XNA™ Game Studio Express: Developing Games for Windows® and the Xbox 360™, Boston, Mass.: Thomson Course Technology, →ISBN, page 252:
text: 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 […]
ref: 2009, Jason Whittaker, quoting code.google.com, Producing for Web 2.0: A Student Guide, 3rd edition, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 157:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Joshua Noble, Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and openFrameworks, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, pages 169–171 and 232:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Sterling Udell, Pro Web Gadgets Across iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, iGoogle and More (The Expert’s Voice® in Web Development), New York, N.Y.: Apress, →ISBN, pages 96–97:
glosses: Alternative form of Hello World.