Unit 7 APCSP Review

Parameter:

a variable in a function definition. Used as a placeholder for values that will be passed through the function.

Argument:

the value passed to the parameter

Return:

used to return the flow of control to the point where the procedure (also known as a function) was called and to return the value of expression.

Procedural abstraction:

a process and allows a procedure/function to be used only knowing what it does, not how it does it.

Procedural abstraction allows...

a solution to a large problem to be based on the solution of smaller subproblems. This is accomplished by creating procedures/functions to solve each of the subproblems.

Library:

a group of functions (procedures) that may be used in creating new programs

API is an abbreviation for

Application Program Interface

API:

specifications for how functions in a library behave and can be used

Functions can only return...

one value at a time

A function can have:

No parameters and no return values

Parameters, but no return values

Return values, but no parameters

Parameters and return values

Modularity

The subdivision of a computer program into separate subprograms. AKA a term for using libraries or other forms of organization in a program