Until now, a childâs life has revolved mainly around the family. Adolescence has the effect of a stone dropped in water, as her social circle ripples outward to include friendships with members of the same sex, the opposite sex, different social and ethnic groups, and other adults, like a favorite teacher or coach.
Definition of:platform. A hardware and/or software architecture that serves as a foundation or base. The term originally dealt with only hardware, and it may still refer to only a CPU model or computer family.For example, the x86 PC is the world's largest hardware platform.IBM's Power Systems and Oracle's SPARC are also hardware platforms (see hardware platform for a larger list).n application can also be a platform if it is a base for other programs. For example, Web browsers accept third-party plug-ins, which are software components that add functionality. The browser becomes a platform to contain those components.
This is followed by a good, more concise definition: The key term in the definition of platform is 'programmed'. 1  If you can program it, then it's a platform. If you can't, then it's not.. Marc then gets into detail by breaking platforms down into three fundamental approaches or levels: 1  Level 1: Access API A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how FlickrTrack this API does it.. The vast marjority, but not all, of the 515 APIs listed on ProgrammableWeb fall into this category.