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Code::Blocks

Code::Blocks is a free, open-source, cross-platform IDE for C, C++, and Fortran, registered on SourceForge in 2004, supporting multiple compilers including GCC, Clang, and Visual C++.

Code.org

Code.org is a Seattle nonprofit founded in 2013 by Hadi and Ali Partovi to expand K-12 computer science education, best known for the Hour of Code.

Codeberg

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-run Git hosting service for free and open-source software, operated by the German association Codeberg e.V. from Berlin and built on the Forgejo software.

Codebook design

Codebook design is the task of building a finite set of representative vectors, the codebook, so quantizing inputs against it minimizes distortion, serving speech compression and MIMO wireless precoding.

Codec

A codec, also called an endec, is a program or device that encodes and decodes data streams, especially compressed video and audio like H.264 and MP3.

Codecademy

Codecademy, also known as Codecademy.com, is an American online learning platform founded in 2011 by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski that teaches programming through interactive browser-based courses.

Codeforces

Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive programming contests, in which participants solve algorithmic problems by writing programs under time limits. It was founded in 2010 by Mikhail Mirzayanov and is based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

CodeGeeX

CodeGeeX is a family of code-generation models from Tsinghua University's KEG lab and Zhipu AI, first released in 2022, with an IDE plugin for code completion and generation.

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is an open-source PHP full-stack web framework, originally developed by EllisLab in 2006, that organizes applications around the Model-View-Controller pattern and is known for speed.

CoDel

CoDel, short for Controlled Delay, is an active queue management algorithm that fights bufferbloat in network routers, developed by Kathleen Nichols and Van Jacobson in 2011–12.

Codell Sandstone (DJ Basin play)

The Codell Sandstone is a thin, low-permeability reservoir in the Denver Basin of Colorado and adjacent states, a principal oil and gas target of the DJ Basin play.

CodeMirror

CodeMirror is an open-source JavaScript code editor component embedded in web pages, first released in 2007; version 6 is a from-scratch modular rewrite used by Jupyter, Chrome DevTools, and Replit.

Codensa

Codensa was a Colombian electricity distribution company headquartered in Bogotá, founded in 1997 and serving the capital and neighboring municipalities until its 2022 merger into Emgesa, renamed Enel Colombia.

CodeQL

CodeQL is a semantic code analysis engine developed by GitHub and maintained by Microsoft, succeeding LGTM as it queries codebases like a relational database for vulnerabilities.

CoderZ

CoderZ is a browser-based learning environment by Intelitek where students code virtual 3D robots through gamified missions, aimed at upper elementary through high school students.

CodeSearchNet

CodeSearchNet is a dataset, set of baseline models, and benchmark for semantic code search, released by GitHub in September 2019 and covering about 6 million functions in six programming languages.

Codeshare agreement

A codeshare agreement is a commercial arrangement in which one airline places its code on a flight operated by another airline and sells tickets as its own.

Codestral

Codestral is a family of code-specialized large language models developed by Mistral AI, first released in May 2024 as a 22B model trained on more than 80 programming languages.

Codex (2021 model)

Codex was a large language model released by OpenAI in 2021, a GPT model fine-tuned on public GitHub code to write Python programs from natural-language descriptions.

CodeXGLUE

CodeXGLUE is a machine learning benchmark and open challenge for code intelligence, introduced in February 2021 by Microsoft researchers, with 10 tasks across 14 datasets and the CodeBLEU metric.

Codey Rocky

Codey Rocky is an educational programmable robot for children aged 6 and up, made by Makeblock and launched on Kickstarter in 2017, programmed through mBlock 5 with block coding and Python.

Código Técnico de la Edificación

The Código Técnico de la Edificación (CTE) is Spain's building code, approved by Royal Decree in 2006 and setting basic safety and habitability requirements for buildings.

Coding agent harness

A coding agent harness is the software layer that surrounds a code model with a tool registry, execution loop, context management, and permissions, turning a stateless model into an agent for long-running software work.

Coding metasurfaces

A coding metasurface is a planar artificial electromagnetic structure whose function is set by discrete '0' and '1' unit-cell sequences rather than continuous geometry, proposed in 2014.

Cody Dock Rolling Bridge

The Cody Dock Rolling Bridge is a hand-powered steel footbridge at Cody Dock in Canning Town, London, completed in 2022, that rolls 180 degrees to let boats pass.

Coen Carrier Station

Coen Carrier Station, also known as Coen Carrier Repeater Station, is a prefabricated steel and iron telegraph building at Coen on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, built in 1942.

Coenraad Bron

Coenraad Bron (1937–2006) was a Dutch computer scientist who co-authored the 1973 Bron–Kerbosch algorithm for listing maximal cliques, worked in Dijkstra's circle at Eindhoven, and became the University of Groningen's first professor of Informatica in 1983.

Coextrusion

Coextrusion is a polymer processing method in which two or more molten polymers are combined into a single multilayer structure, widely used for packaging film and sheet.

Coffee grinder

A coffee grinder, also called a coffee mill, is a device that breaks roasted coffee beans into particles of a controlled size so hot water can extract flavor during brewing.

Coffee Lake

Coffee Lake is the code name for Intel's eighth-generation Core processors, built on a refined 14 nm process and launched for desktops in October 2017.