English 4 IT - Unit 19 Vocabulary
English 4 IT - Unit 19 Vocabulary
English 4 IT - Unit 19 Vocabulary
code monkey
someone who sits and programs all day; someone who is only valued for their programming skills
"The bad software architect said, "Tell the developers to stop thinking and start typing like good little
code monkeys!""
early adopter
a person who likes new things and often buys them before they are proven
"A geek is a typical early adopter, often trying the latest and greatest technology before their peers have
even heard of it."
fanboy
someone obsessed or devoted to a particular item or genre
"Tom is such a fanboy he still uses his old Commodore Amiga as his main computer."
flame
to write an intentionally abusive reply to a comment or forum post
"Joe the sysadmin got sent to counseling because he started too many flame wars on the company
intranet."
geek
an individual with a passion for computers, to the exclusion of other normal human interests
"The geek did not have a girlfriend, but he did have a computer named Lisa which he programmed to sing
him love songs before bedtime."
horked
completely broken in some mysterious way; corrupted
"The web sites crashed because the server was completely horked."
killer app
a piece of software which redefines the industry, often causing people to rush out and buy new hardware
so they can use it
"Email was the first killer app of the Internet. "
leading edge
at the forefront of a new technology; also referred to as "state-of-the-art"
"Kyle's company is so leading edge they buy everyone new computers every six months."
spaghetti code
a derogatory term for poorly organized programming code.
"The lead programmer threw his hands up in the air and screamed when he saw the 10,000 lines of
spaghetti code that management asked him to debug by tomorrow."
trendsetter
someone who successfully defines a path for the rest of the industry to follow
"Apple is a company of trendsetters, whom everyone else is just following like lemmings."
troll
a person who writes intentionally controversial posts on a user forum in order to start a flame war.
"The forum's popularity among serious users went down when the system operator refused to banish the
trolls."
whatever
something sarcastic you can say to non-technical people when they tell repeatedly give you misguided
technical instructions that are impossible, impractical, dangerous, or overly time-consuming
""Whatever, dude," replied the programmer when his manager asked him to work overtime to recover his
deleted files. "