Advanced programming

Character-by-Character Text Processing

Accessing or manipulating individual characters in a string

Recursive Case

When a problem is reduced to a smaller version of the original problem

Base Case

An instance in which a problem can be solved without recursion

Depth of Recursion

The number of times a module calls itself

Recursive Module

A module that calls itself

Objects

Software entities that contain both data and procedures

Data Hiding

An object's ability to hide its data from code that's outside the object

Encapsulation

The combination of data and code into a single object

Methods

Program modules with statements to carry out a task

Polymorphism

Allows an object to take different forms

Event Handler

A module that executes when an action occurs, such as when a user clicks a button

Components

Items that appear in a program's GUI

Event-Driven

The user determines the order in which things happen.

User Interface

The part of the computer with which the user interacts