Computer Science GCSE
Run-time environment
What Run-time environment means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Run-time environment
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Reference: OCR
The facility that allows the program to be executed and tested from inside the IDE, often with a debugger for stepping through code and inspecting variables.
Topics that use Run-time environment
- The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (OCR GCSE)
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