{"id":7383,"date":"2023-04-05T01:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T19:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:53:09","slug":"open-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/open-source-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Open Source Code:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open source is a term that originally referred to <strong>open source software<\/strong> (OSS).<\/li>\n<li>Open source software is code that is designed to be <strong>publicly accessible<\/strong>\u2014anyone can <strong>see, modify, and distribute the code<\/strong> as they see fit.<\/li>\n<li>Open-source software is developed in <strong>a decentralized and collaborative way<\/strong>, relying on peer review and community production.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Source code?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the set of <strong>instructions and statements<\/strong> written by a programmer using a computer programming language.<\/li>\n<li>This code is later translated into <strong>machine language<\/strong> by a compiler. The translated code is referred to as object code.<\/li>\n<li>Source code is the source of a computer program.<\/li>\n<li>It contains declarations, instructions, functions, loops and other statements, which act as <strong>instructions for the program on how to function.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Programs may contain <strong>one or more source code text files<\/strong>, which can be stored on a computer\u2019s hard disk, in a database, or printed in books of code snippets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is closed-source software?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is software in which the public is not given access to the source code, so they can\u2019t see or modify it in any way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1) What is Software?<\/h3>\n<p>Software is one which comprises the entire set of programs, procedures, and routines associated with the operation of a computer system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/info-tech\/social-media\/twitter-publicly-shares-source-codes\/article66691005.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Twitter publicly shares source codes<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source software is code that is designed to be publicly accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}