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What is a Relational Database?
Learn what makes a database, the different types of database, what normalization is about and a brief overview of SQL.

All about the C# Programming Language
This is a detailed look at the programming language C#

All about the C++ Programming Language
This is a detailed look at the Programming Language C++

What is a Random Number?
Learn about how random numbers are generated, distributions, Linear Congruential Generators and more.

What is a Variable?
Learn about variables, the different types of data that can be stored in a variable including ints, floats, objects, structs and strings.

What is an Enum?
Learn a programming technique that will improve your code's reliability and reduce the number of bugs.

What is Encryption?
Learn about encryption and how messages are disguised.

What is a Compiler?
Learn what a compiler does, how it analyzes the source code of the program then generates machine code.

What is Data Compression?
This describes data compression, the different types of compression such as lossy or lossless and how compression is used everyday in computing.

What is Programming?
Find out what is involved with programming, what happens and some of the things you can do with it.

What is a Programming Language?
This explains what a programming language is, what it's used for, which programming languages there are and

All about the C Programming Language
This is a detailed look at the Programming Language C

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