AP CSP Unit 1, Lab 1 & 2 Vocab

Collaboration

Talk with Your Partner

Driver

Person in pair programming who actively writes the code

Navigator

Writes the plan, checks for errors, reviews/improves code

Abstraction

Give a name to something in a program

Procedural Abstraction

Using a procedure (a block) to name the idea

List

An ordered sequence of items

String

A sequence of characters

Substring

A piece of an existing string

Empty String

A string with no characters

Concatenate

Connect strings to make a bigger string

Edith Windsor

 Activist and IBM manager, known for debugging skills, led Supreme Court case U.S. v. Windsor

Debugging

Testing, finding problems, and fixing them

Procedure

A named sequence of instructions that may take inputs and outputs

Reporters

Oval blocks that report a value

Commands

 Instructions telling the computer what to do

Value of Procedure

The output/value returned after procedure is ran

Expression

Constant value or call to reporter block including its inputs

Value

The single result of evaluating an expression

Script

A bunch of blocks clicked together

Event

 Clicking on the sprite, pressing a key, or clicking the green flag button

Hat Blocks

Blocks that only sit on the top of the script

Event-Driven Programming

Using events to control a program

Sprites

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 what you can see behind it

Opaque

Not letting the light through, not transparent