(software engineering) Designing a complex software system as a composition of smaller parts.

(computing) A style of programming that relies on blocks of code, subroutines and the absence of simple tests and jumps

(software engineering) A software development approach where the whole team works on a single project at a single computer at the same time.

plural of genetic programming

(mathematics, computer science) An optimization method by which a problem having optimal substructure is recursively broken into simpler subproblems which are solved to produce the globally optimal solution.

(programming) A programming paradigm in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language (such as English), interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable representation can be generated.

(programming, informal) A slapdash approach to programming involving guesswork or plagiarism rather than proper analysis and comprehension.

Alternative spelling of object-oriented programming

(computing, programming) A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, which makes it possible for software components to interact with one another, leading to the ability to share data over a network.

plural of application programming interface