BJC Units 1 and 2 Vocab

APCSP

sprite

Like an actor on the stage who knows how to do many different things, such as walk around the stage and speak the lines of the play

costume

Picture that can be "worn" by a sprite

transparency

How much you can see behind an image

list

A ordered collection of items

string

A sequence of characters (letters, digits, punctuation, etc.)

substring

A piece of some existing string

concatenate

To make a bigger string by connecting two or more smaller strings

debugging

The process of testing, finding problems, and fixing them

procedure

A named sequence of instructions that may take inputs and may report a value

reporter

A block that reports a value and has an oval shape

command

A block that tells the computer to do something without reporting a value and that has a jigsaw puzzle shape

expression

Either a constant value or a call to a reporter block including its inputs

value

Can be a number, a string, a sprite, a costume, a script, a list—anything; what expressions are evaluated to produce