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Web Development - The process of building web applications, either front-end, back-end, or both.

REST - Representational State Transfer. (It is sometimes spelled "ReST".) REST is an architecture style or convention for designing networked applications.

CRUD - An acronym that stands for "Create, Read, Update, Destroy." Each of these words maps to an action that can occur in a relational database. For example, one can "Read" or "Retrieve" information from a database. As developers, we create back-end and/or front-end interfaces that allow us execute these actions on a database.

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which are data structures that encapsulate data, in the form of fields, often known as attributes; and behavior, in the form of procedures, often known as methods.