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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

keyword

Any word in the vocabulary of a programming language which can only have the meaning which is defined in the language. For example, many programming languages have an instruction FOR which is a reserved word and so a variable or other identifier cannot be named FOR.

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