👉 In programming, "pre-initializing" is a phrase that refers to the act of initializing variables or other data structures before they are used. This can be done by using the `<` symbol to indicate that the variable has been initialized; for example, in C++, it would look like this: ```cpp int x = 0; ``` In Python, "pre-initializing" is often expressed as a comment or a line of code with a semicolon at the end. For