What is a project?

Let's start with the definition and origin of the term project.

Definition and origin of project

The term project, according to an English by Oxford Dictionaries, is an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim. The term was adopted by the designers of IDEs to mean the collection of files that compose an application. That is why the term project is often used as a synonym for an application, too.

Project-related terms

The files that constitute the project are stored in the directories of a filesystem...