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SaaS – An online service, software as a service, where software is licensed and hosted online.

Scalability – The ability to handle a growing amount of work.

Selection statement – A statement that evaluates a condition to be either true or false and can execute different blocks of code depending on the result.

Sequence – An enumerated collection of objects.

Server – A computer program or device that provides services and functionality to other devices, called clients.

Set type – A data type that can store a collection of unique values without a particular order.

Scheme – A programming language developed by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was first released in 1975.

Short code – Considered by many as being the first high-level programming language, proposed by John Mauchly in 1949.

Signed magnitude representation – A way to represent negative numbers in binary form.

Simula – A...