Ideas in this flowchart

• Technical abbreviations and their meanings
• Abbreviations beginning with D–F
• DRY means Don’t Repeat Yourself (292).
• EB means Exabyte.
• ECMA means European Computer Manufacturers Association.
• EDI means Electronic Data Interchange.
• EOF means End Of File (184).
• FIFO means First-In First-Out.
• FOSS means Free and Open Source Software.
• FUD means Fear Uncertainty Doubt.
• Abbreviations beginning with G
• GB means Gigabyte.
• GCC means GNU Compiler Collection.
• GDB means GNU Debugger.
• GIF means Graphics Interchange Format.
• GIGO means Garbage-In Garbage-Out.
• GIMP means GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• GIS means Geographic Information System.
• GNU means GNU’s Not Unix! (49, 324).
• GUI means Graphical User Interface (42, 144, 366).
• Abbreviations beginning with H–I
• HTML means HyperText Markup Language (181, 184, 497, 565).
• IDE means Integrated Development Environment (7, 21, 46, 49, 258, 385, 390, 471, 502).
• IEC means International Electrotechnical Commission (26, 253).
• IEEE means Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (26, 260, 306, 503).
• IP means Internet Protocol (201).
• ISO means International Organization for Standardization (253, 343).
• Abbreviations beginning with J
• JDBC means Java Database Connectivity.
• JDK means Java Development Kit (383, 385, 388, 427, 431, 436, 449, 458, 487).