AP CSP Unit 4 Course Vocabulary

Expression

a combination of operators and values that evaluates to a single value

Assignment Operator

allows a program to change the value represented by a variable

Variable

a named reference to a value that can be used repeatedly throughout a program.

String

an ordered sequence of characters.

Boolean Value

a data type that is either true or false.

Comparison Operators

Logical operator

NOT, AND, and OR, which evaluate to a Boolean value.

Conditional Statement

affect the sequential flow of control by executing different statements based on the value of a Boolean expression.

Function

a named group of programming instructions. Also referred to as a “procedure”.

Function Call

a command that executes the code within a function