APCSP Unit 1 Lab 1 and 2 Vocab

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 start on a script

Event-Driven Programming

Using events to control a program 

Sprites

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

Pictures that can be “worn” by the sprite 

Transparency

How much you can see what's behind it

Opaque

Visible

Collaboration

Group working together to program something

Driver

Controls the computer

Navigator

Helps catch errors and keeps track of how the code being written fits into the plan

Abstraction

To give a name something in programming

Procedural Abstraction

To give a name to an idea 

List

ordered sequence of items 

String

sequence of characters and numbers

Substring

piece of a string like a smaller word part of a bigger word Tay in Taylor

Empty String

A string with nothing 

Concatenate

Connecting 2 smaller strings 

Edith Windaor

LGBTQ advocate who is a top notch debugger. Major reason for why same gender marriage as legal. Rights activist and technology manager.

Debugging

Testing a program to find an error or mistake in the code

Procedure

Name of sequenced instructions that take report of inputs and make decisions or report a value. 

Reporters

Have an oval shape they report commands.

Commands

Have a jigsaw shape they tell computer to do something without reporting value

Value of Procedure

The value the procedure returns when called

Expression

A constant value or a call to reporter block including its inputs

Value

A value can be anything: script, costume, sprite etc.