Vocab U3 APCOMPSCI

Recursion

Calling a procedure from inside itself

Modularity

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

Clone

A copy of a sprite that shares information with its parent sprite

Debugging

The art of identifying errors in computer programs and fixing them

Input

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

Output

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

High order function

A function that takes a function as input (or reports a function as output)

Sprite variable

A variable that is like a global variable in that it doesn't belong to a particular script, but it does belong to a particular sprite

Artificial intelligence

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