Comp Sci

API

documents what a programmer needs to know about using a library: it's a description of each procedure's purpose, inputs, and outputs.

constructor ____

Constructs one example of the data structure

Creative Commons ____

is a specific family of copyright licenses that allow others to use, share, maybe sell, and maybe revise your work.

open access ____

scholarly research reports are available for free download, rather than requiring the permission of a journal publisher.

artificial intelligence ____

A field of computer science loosely defined as "trying to get computers to think"

sublist ____

A list used as an item of another list

traversing ____

Looking at each item of the list

abstract data type ____

A custom data type that's meaningful to your program

free software ____

is software that anyone can copy, use, modify, and redistribute, including commercially, provided that any modifications must be under the same license.

composition of functions ____

Using the result from one block as the input to another

domain ____

is the type of data that a procedure accepts as input, also called input type

open source ____

software for which you make the program's source (human-readable) code available to anyone; how people can use the program may still be restricted.

input ____

Information entered into a program by the user or by data tables, sounds, pictures, video, or other programs

index ____

The position of an element in a list or the position of a character in a string is its .

data type ____

What kind of data something is (number, text string, list, etc.)

software library ____

A collection of procedures that can be used in programs is called a(n) .

data abstraction ____

The creation and use of abstract data types in a program

debugging ____

The art of identifying errors in computer programs and fixing them

sequencing ____

is the application of each step of an algorithm in the order in which the code statements are given.

primitive data type ____

Data types that are built-in

element ____

Another name for an item in a list

nested conditional statement ____

An if or if-else statement inside another if or if-else statement is called a(n) .

conditional ____

A block that controls the code based on a true-or-false condition

string ____

An ordered sequence of characters is called a(n) .

list ____

A ordered set of items

selector ____

Selects one piece of the data structure

selection ____

Deciding which part of an algorithm to run based on whether a condition is true or false is called .

range ____

is the type of data that a procedure reports as output, also called output type.

Boolean ____

Either true or false

variable ____

A container that can hold one value at a time

output ____

Data sent from your program to the user or to any device

global variable ____

A variable that is usable by all scripts in the program

initialize ____

Set the starting value of a variable

local variable ____

A variable that can be set or used only in the environment in which it is defined

predicate ____

A hexagon-shaped reporter that asks a true/false question

modularity ____

The process of breaking a problem into smaller pieces or separate sub-problems

iteration ____

Implementing a repeating program structure is called .