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CASE

CASE
1. Computer Aided Software Engineering.

Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) is the use of computer tools to assist in developing software.

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2. Specification of the way capitalisation should be used.

Case is a specification of whether letters should be upper case, lower case, or some combination of upper and lower case.

Most writing systems use individual letters which for the purpose of clarify can be expressed in upper or lower case. For example the Latin alphabet uses the letters a-z, which can be expressed in lower case or upper case.

 Letter
caseLowerabc defghijk lmnopqrs tuvwxyz
UpperABCDEF GHIJKLMN OPQRSTUV WXYZ

Case can be specified in a number of different ways:

Mixed case
Letters can be upper or lower case.
This sentence is an example of mixed case.
Lower case
All letters in lower case.
For example: this is lower case.
Upper case
All letters in upper case.
For example: THIS IS UPPER CASE.
Title case
The first letter of each word is capitalised with the remaining letters in lower case.
For example: This Is Title Case.
Camel case
The first letter of each word is capitalised, with the remaining letters in lower case and any spaces and punctuation removed.
For example: ThisIsCamelCase.
Sentence case
The first letter of each sentence is captialised, with the remaining letters in lower case, with the exception of proper names which also have their first letter capitalised.
Proper case
Refers to capitalising the first letter of all proper names, the remaining letters in lower case. Sentence case includes Proper case.