comp sci vocab 1

Alonzo Church

Major contributor to early computer science

Sprite

Like an actor on the stage who knows how to do many different things, such as walk around the stage and speak the lines of the play

Costumes

Picture that can be “worn” by a sprite

Transparency

How much of an image you can see and what's behind it

List

An ordered sequence of items

String

A sequence of characters

Debugging

Process of testing, finding problems, and fixing them is called debugging

Procedure

Named sequence of instructions that may take inputs and may report a value

Reporters

Have an oval shape
They report a value

Commands

Have a jigsaw puzzle shape
Tell the computer to do something without reporting a value