BJC Unit 2 Labs 3-5 Vocabulary

index

The position of an element in a list or the position of a character in a string

creative commons

A specific family of copyright licenses that allow others to use, share, maybe sell, and maybe revise your work

open source

Software for which you make the program's source (human-readable) code available to anyone; how people can use the program may still be restricted

software library

A collection of procedures that can be used in programs

selection

Deciding which part of an algorithm to run based on whether a condition is true or false

free software

Software that anyone can copy, use, modify, and redistribute, including commercially, provided that any modifications must be under the same license

sequencing

The application of each step of an algorithm in the order in which the code statements are given

range

The type of data that a procedure reports as output, also called output type

string

An ordered sequence of characters

domain

The type of data that a procedure accepts as input, also called input type

nested conditional statement

An if or if-else statement inside another if or if-else statement

iteration

A repeating program structure

API

Documents what a programmer needs to know about using a library: it's a description of each procedure's purpose, inputs, and outputs

Open access

Scholarly research reports that are available for free download, rather than requiring the permission of a journal publisher