Course 7 Module 3 Glossary

Algorithm

A set of rules that solve a problem

Bracket notation

The indices placed in square brackets

Debugging

The practice of identifying and fixing errors in code

Immutable

An object that cannot be changed after it is created and assigned a value

Index

A number assigned to every element in a sequence that indicates its position

List concatenation

The concept of combining two lists into one by placing the elements of the second list directly after the elements of the first list

List data

Data structure that consists of a collection of data in sequential form

Method

A function that belongs to a specific data type

Regular expression (regex)

A sequence of characters that forms a pattern

String concatenation

The process of joining two strings together

String data

Data consisting of an ordered sequence of characters

Substring

A continuous sequence of characters within a string