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  • New Element / NEDESIGNS

    Video-game fansite and online community dedicated to RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (2002), which are simulation games about building a theme park.
  • Plain Text

    Definition
    A piece of data in the computer, such as a file, that encodes a text as a simple sequence of characters.
  • Return Key

    Definition
    Name of a key of the computer keyboard: the Enter key found in the alphanumeric area.
  • Notepad++

    A source code editor available for Windows.
  • REXPaint

    Closed Source
    Freeware
    Windows
    An ASCII art editor with color support for Windows.
  • ASCII

    Definition
    An old way to store text as bits in a computer, i.e. it's a character encoding.
  • Sprite

    An image in a game that moves and changes, that has animation, specially in the context of 2D games. Sprites are usually images of characters, enemies, monsters, spells, and other effects.
  • How to Pass All Terminal Arguments to Another Program in Bash

    In Bash, we can use $@ to quickly pass all arguments we received in one script to another script or program.
  • How to Convert an Image from PNG to JPG or WebP in Memory using Python / Pillow

    How to convert image formats in memory using Python / Pillow (PIL).
  • How to Print All Terminal Arguments using Bash

    Tutorial: learn how to write a Bash script to print all arguments passed to a script file via terminal in Linux.
  • Dollar Sign Character

    A character of text that has special meaning in some programming languages.
  • Backward Slash Character

    Character of text typically used in text codes for addresses, used to separate elements in a path, and as a escape character in various programming languages.
  • Whitespace

    Unvisible characters of text, such as the space character, the tab character, carriage return characters, and new line characters.
  • sudo

    Name of a program on Linux that you use to execute commands as administrator.
  • rwx

    Read, write, and execute, they're file permissions on Linux.
  • RWX File Permissions Notation on Linux

    What codes like rwxrw-r-- mean on Linux.
  • Tab Character

    Character of text typed by pressing the Tab key in text editors that support it.
  • Space Character

    Character of text typed by pressing the spacebar that simply adds an empty space to a line of text. It doesn't have a glyph that gets drawn in its place like other characters have.
  • Dash Character

    The dash (-), also called hyphen, or minus sign, is a character commonly found in text codes, specially as a substitute for the space character ( ) in contexts where spaces can't be used.
  • What Read, Write, and Execute Permissions Mean on Linux

    On Linux, read, write, and execute have different meanings depending on whether they're permissions of a file or of a directory (a folder). In this article, we'll take a look at how they work.
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