Concepts and jargon-about-jargon

A long password that lets your code use a paid or private API.

The rules about what you're allowed to do with a piece of code someone else wrote.

Tools that do most of the work for you but let you drop into code when you need to.

Tools that let you build apps by clicking and configuring, without writing code at all.

Code released under a licence that lets anyone read, use, and change it — within whatever terms that licence sets.

A cap on how many times you're allowed to use an API in a given window.

Building software by describing what you want to an AI in plain English, rather than writing the code yourself.