toolkit
toolkit – sostantivo
toolbox – sostantivo
Since 1994 we have been distributing programmers toolkits and end user applications under open source licenses.
He is doubtful about the value of cross-platform toolkits.
Here’s the list of apps we recommend for your toolbox.
This toolkit contains guidance for schools on effective ways to support and protect transgender pupils and staff.
Traditional market research methods like surveys and focus groups are part of the Product Manager’s toolkit.
One of the best tools in the parenting toolbox for toddlers is “Use your words!”
Il linguaggio della tecnologia moderna è stracolmo di parole che si riferiscono al mondo fisico riproposte in quello elettronico o virtuale, basti pensare a window, file, interface, back end e front end, per non parlare di Facebook (in origine una sorta di annuario virtuale del college con le foto degli studenti), Twitter (il cinguettio), chat e così via.
Due termini che rientrano in questa grande famiglia sono toolkit e toolbox. Fino all’avvento dell’era del computer un tool kit era semplicemente un set di oggetti, attrezzi, utensili ecc. per uno scopo specifico, mentre tool box era l’umile cassetta degli attrezzi: in informatica i due termini indicano un insieme di strumenti software utilizzabile per facilitare e uniformare lo sviluppo di applicazioni derivate più complesse.
Il significato di toolkit si è esteso ulteriormente per riferirsi a un insieme di strategie, strumenti o risorse utilizzabili in un’area specifica.
Origini del termine
Toolkit e toolbox sono di norma intercambiabili, per quanto ci sia chi considera uno una sottocategoria dell’altro. Mentre nel significato informatico toolbox risale agli anni 1960, toolkit ha preso piede un paio di decenni più tardi.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
toolkit – noun
toolbox – noun
Since 1994 we have been distributing programmers toolkits and end user applications under open source licenses.
He is doubtful about the value of cross-platform toolkits.
Here’s the list of apps we recommend for your toolbox.
This toolkit contains guidance for schools on effective ways to support and protect transgender pupils and staff.
Traditional market research methods like surveys and focus groups are part of the Product Manager’s toolkit.
One of the best tools in the parenting toolbox for toddlers is “Use your words!”
The language of modern technology is full of words that refer to the physical world repurposed for the electronic or virtual one: just think of window, file, interface, back and front end, not to mention Facebook (originally a directory with pictures of people in it), Twitter (what small birds do), chat and so on.
Two such terms are toolkit and toolbox. Until the dawn of the computer age a tool kit was a set of physical tools, especially one kept for a particular purpose, while a tool box was a container for keeping tools in. Both terms were adopted very early on by computer people to refer to a set of software tools that can be used to build more advanced tools or programs.
Toolkit in particular has been extended further, to refer to a set of skills or resources that can be used in a specific area, as in the last three examples above.
Origin
Toolkit and toolbox are generally used interchangeably, although some people distinguish between them, using one as a subset of the other. Toolbox was first used in a computing context back in the 1960s, while toolkit started to be used in a similar way a couple of decades later.
