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Japanese software engineering / programming vocabulary

#1
I am a software engineer and am looking to converse with Japanese software engineers during an upcoming trip to Japan. I am trying to find vocabulary lists about my specific industry but am having trouble. I mostly work with data science / data analysis. For example, here are a few words that I recently added to my anki list:

プログラミング言語
データ
データ分析
データ加工

I have been looking at some Japanese data science blogs and adding stuff as I go. But I thought if someone had already compiled a list that I could use or build off of, that might save me some time.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.
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#2
Maybe you'll find this book useful, there are some chapters dedicated to the computer...

http://books.google.it/books?id=zolnvcfN...=html_text

It's Intermediate Technical Japanese Volume 2, a glossary of the terms that appear in Volume 1.
Unfortunately it is not copy-pastable.
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#3
http://e-words.jp/
http://www.sophia-it.com/

These are more like general IT jargon dictionaries, but they help me when I'm going through Japanese web development tutorials. Googling "IT用語辞典" brings up a lot of them.
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#4
I don't have a pre-fabricated vocab list ready, but you might want to consider generating your own list using cb's tools that you can find here on this forum. e.g. gather a lot of resources, generate a word frequency report, throw away the non-technical words and learn the rest.
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#5
You could check Imabi's site here, he has a page with some basic programming vocabulary:

http://www.imabi.net/apps/blog/entries/s...vocabulary
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#6
Why not read the docs for a language you already know in Japanese? PHP has Japanese docs, e.g.:

http://php.net/manual/ja/

And of course Ruby, being the creation of a Japanese developer, has extensive Japanese docs.

http://docs.ruby-lang.org/ja/2.1.0/doc/s...intro.html
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#7
I was making one while reading this book, but a lot of programming words are easily guessable if you have a decent vocab, since they seem to be direct translations or katakana. Here are a few I saved that aren't on that imabi list.

凝集度 cohesion
結合度 coupling
粒度 granularity
構成要素 component
列挙型 enum
有効範囲 scope
入れ子 nesting

You could try watching some videos on http://dotinstall.com/ if there's anything useful for you, or searching YouTube for talks or tutorials on data science.
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#8
Thank you all for the fantastic answers!
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