AP CSP BJC Unit 3 Vocabulary

recursion

calling a procedure from inside itself

procedural abstraction

developing a program by dividing a larger problem into sub-problems

modularity

form of procedural abstraction; breaking a problem into smaller problems

debugging

identifying and fixing errors in computer programs

input

information entered into a program by the user

output

data sent by the program

higher-order function

function that takes a function as an input or reports a function as an output

sprite variable

variable that only works within a specific sprite

artificial intelligence

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