What you'd probably say, and the word that gets you help instead of a blank look. This field is unusually unforgiving about vocabulary — describing a bug in the right terms often solves it outright.
“Computers” covers a dozen trades that barely overlap. Someone brilliant at databases may be no help at all with your website's layout — naming the branch is how you avoid wasting both your time.
The working vocabulary. The AI section at the end is the newest and the most frequently misused — worth reading even if you skip the rest.
Code is mostly punctuation, and nobody ever reads it aloud to you. Here's what each mark does and what to call it.