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Hard coding

Hard coding is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at runtime.

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Backdoors

Digital rights management

Fixed installation path

Startup disk

Special folders

Solution

Computing competitions

Soft coding

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Hard coding

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples46
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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Hard coding

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related to Programming practice · 8
Hard coding → Abstracting, Avoiding, Similarly, Soft, The, The Daily WTF, These, Users
related to Startup disk · 5
Hard coding → If, In, PCs, Some, This
related to overview · 4
Hard coding → Hard, Later, Programmers, This
related to Soft coding · 4
Hard coding → HTTP, INI, It, Soft
related to Solution · 3
Hard coding → An, FileName, Hard
related to Backdoors · 2
Hard coding → Hard, If
related to Special folders · 2
Hard coding → Some Windows, There
is a · 1
Hard coding → software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object

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coding program code hard software user source may soft hard-coded data files disk constants configuration end would often windows drive

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Hard codingis asoftware development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object0.90text
MUDsinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
hard coding also refers to developing the core engine of the system responsible for low-level tasksinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
executing scriptsinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
as opposed to soft coding which is developing the high-level scripts that get interpreted by the system at runtimeinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
with values from external sourcesinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
such as text filesinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
INI filesinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
preprocessor macrosinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
external constantsinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
databasesinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text
command-line argumentsinstance ofIn the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments0.80text

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