BAIN MUSC 336
Introduction to Computer Music

Max Programming Glossary

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Here is a listing of the most important computer programming concepts we will encounter in our study of Max/MSP with links to articles in Wikipedia (WP). For a more comprehensive online computer programming glossary, see the Wiktionary Glossary of Computer Programming. See also: Butterfield, Ngondi, and Kerr 2021; and Angius et al. 2021.

1. Abstraction {WP}
2. Algorithm {WP}
3. ASCII {WP}, Extended ASCII {WP} & Unicode {WP}
4. Commenting code {WP}
5. Computer programming {WP}
6. Control flow {WP}
7. Counter {WP}
8. Central processing unit (CPU) {WP}
9. Cymatics {WP}
10. Data type {WP}
11. Debugging: syntax error & logical error {WP}
12. Depth-first search {WP}
13. Encapsulation {WP}
    
14. Execution (of a program) {WP}
15. Floating-point number {WP}
16. Flow chart {WP}
17. Generative art {WP}
18. Generative music {WP}
19. Graph {WP}; See also: Directed acyclic graph {WP}
20. Graphical programming language {WP}
21. Human-computer interaction (HCI) {WP}
22. Increment {WP}
23. Initialization (of a program) {WP}
24. Input/Output (I/O) {WP}
25. Iteration {WP}
26. Interpreted (programming) language {WP}
27. Integer {WP}
28. Loop {WP}
29. Message {WP}
30. Number {WP}
31. Object-oriented programming {WP}
32. Operating system {WP}
33. Parameters & Arguments {WP}
34. Peer programming {WP}
35. Preemptive multitasking {WP}
36. Programming language {WP}
37. Pseudorandomness {WP}
38. Program {WP} & Subprogram {WP}
39. Recursion {WP}
40. Scheduling {WP}
41. Stack {WP}
42. User Interface {WP}
43. Variable {WP}
44. Von Neumann architecture {WP}

WP - Wikipedia

References

Angius, Nicola, Giuseppe Primiero, and Raymond Turner, 2021. "The Philosophy of Computer Science", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta, ed. Available online at: <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2021/entries/computer-science/>.

Butterfield, Andrew, Gerald Ngondi, and Anne Kerr. 2021. Oxford: A Dictionary of Computer Science, 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press. {ODCS}

Updated: October 30, 2021