1 An architect is not, or at least should not, be tied to one specific element of expertise. 2  If he or she is focused on only one area, then he or she becomes a subject matter expert and not an architect. 3  This is an important and practical distinction, because technology keeps changing.
An ordered arrangement of data items. A vector is a one dimensional array; a matrix is a two-dimensional array. Arrays are used in myriad applications from basic database processing to scientific simulation. Most programming languages support arrays by providing indexes into the data.
Variable (computer science) (Redirected from Scalar (computing)) In computer programming, a variable or scalar is a storage location paired with an associated symbolic name (an identifier), which contains some known or unknown quantity of information referred to as a value.