https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/Recent content in Basics on AI Solutions WikiHugoen-usThu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-react-native/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-react-native/Quick Answer React Native is a framework that lets you write one JavaScript or TypeScript codebase and ship it as a genuine native app on both iOS and Android. You write your app once, and it produces the same kind of app you would get from a dedicated Swift team and a dedicated Kotlin team, from a single shared codebase. One codebase, two platforms. React Native is the capsule wardrobe of mobile development: one shared foundation, dressed appropriately for each platform.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-computer/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-computer/Quick Answer A computer is a machine that takes in information, follows a set of instructions to process it, and produces a result. Everything from your phone to a server running Netflix is doing exactly this, just at different speeds and scales. The one idea that explains everything Forget the hardware for a moment. The single most important thing to understand about a computer is: it does exactly what it is told, nothing more and nothing less.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-database/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-database/Quick Answer A database is a system for storing structured data in a way that makes it easy to find, update, and delete specific records. Every app that remembers anything, your account, your order history, your settings, your messages, stores that data in a database. A database is organized storage with an address system. Every row has a location. Every query is a retrieval instruction. Speed comes from knowing exactly where to look.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-server/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-server/Quick Answer A server is a computer, physically similar to your laptop, that is kept on 24/7, connected to the internet, and configured to respond to requests. When you visit a website, your browser sends a request to a server, which processes it and sends back a response. Every web app you use runs on servers. The client-server model Every interaction on the web is a conversation: Client (your browser, phone, or app) sends a request: “Give me the homepage of example.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-terminal/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-a-terminal/Quick Answer The terminal (also called the command line or shell) is a text-based way to control your computer. Instead of clicking buttons, you type commands. Developers use it because it is faster, more precise, and many developer tools only work through it. The terminal is a direct line to the machine. No icons, no menus, no abstraction. You type an instruction. The computer executes it. That is the entire contract.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-ai/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-ai/Quick Answer AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a broad term for software that performs tasks normally requiring human intelligence. Modern AI works by learning statistical patterns from enormous amounts of data, rather than following explicit rules written by a programmer. Large language models like Claude, GPT, and Gemini are the dominant form of AI in 2026. The old way vs the new way Traditional software follows explicit rules written by programmers:https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-an-api/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-an-api/Quick Answer An API (Application Programming Interface) is a defined way for one piece of software to ask another piece of software to do something. When a weather app shows you today’s forecast, it called a weather service’s API. When you pay with Stripe, your app called Stripe’s API. APIs are how modern software is composed from smaller, specialised parts. The restaurant analogy The clearest way to explain an API: imagine a restaurant.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-code/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-code/Quick Answer Code is a set of instructions written in a formal language that a computer can follow. Unlike human languages, code must be precisely correct, a single misplaced character causes it to fail. But this precision is also what makes it powerful: the computer will do exactly what you describe, every time, at billions of operations per second. Code is a precise set of instructions that transforms input into output.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-git/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-git/Quick Answer Git is a free, open-source tool that runs on your computer and tracks every change you make to your project files. It is the industry-standard version control system. Almost every software team, open-source project, and AI coding tool assumes you are using Git. Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to manage development of the Linux kernel after the previous version control tool lost its free license.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-github/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-github/Quick Answer GitHub is a website where developers store their Git repositories online, collaborate with others, track bugs and feature requests, and manage the full lifecycle of a software project. It is where virtually all open-source software in the world is published, and where your project should live if you are building anything serious. GitHub is the mechanism that makes team software development work. Every contributor, branch, pull request, and review is a gear in the same machine.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-open-source/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-open-source/Quick Answer Open source software is software whose code is publicly available. Anyone can read it, use it, modify it, and distribute it, subject to the terms of the licence. This is how most of the infrastructure of the internet was built: collectively, by thousands of contributors around the world. Open source is code that projects outward. Anyone can read it, copy it, modify it, and send changes back. The original source keeps emitting.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-the-cloud/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-the-cloud/Quick Answer “The cloud” means computing resources, servers, storage, databases, networking, that you rent over the internet instead of owning yourself. You pay for what you use, scale up or down instantly, and never need to buy hardware. The joke that “the cloud is just someone else’s computer” is true. It is just very well-managed, very reliable someone else’s computers. The cloud is infrastructure you rent instead of own. The grid is already there.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-the-internet/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-the-internet/Quick Answer The internet is billions of computers connected to each other through physical cables, fibre, and wireless links. They communicate by following shared rules called protocols. When you visit a website, your computer sends a request across this network and receives a response, usually in under a second. The internet is billions of these connections firing simultaneously. Every request you send travels through physical cables, routers, and servers before the response reaches you.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-version-control/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-version-control/Quick Answer Version control is a system that records every change made to a set of files over time. You can go back to any previous version, see exactly what changed and who changed it, and work with other people on the same files without creating chaos. Without version control, software projects become this. Every change is a risk. Every mistake is permanent. Version control gives you a map of the spiral and the ability to climb back out.https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-vibe-coding/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai-solutions.wiki/basics/what-is-vibe-coding/Quick Answer Vibe coding means using AI tools, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, v0, to build software by describing what you want in plain English. You are the architect and decision-maker. The AI writes the code. The term was coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 and it describes a genuine shift in how software gets made. The AI Stylist model. You describe what you want: the vibe, the occasion, the constraint.