APCSP Vocabulary List

Computing innovation

is an innovation that includes a computer or program code as an integral part of its functionality.

Syntax error

A character or string incorrectly placed in a command or instruction that causes a failure in execution.

Variables

used to store information to be referenced and manipulated in a computer program.

Constructor

A constructor is a special type of subroutine called to create an object. It prepares the new object for use, often accepting arguments that the constructor uses to set required member variables.

Program

Provide coded instructions for the automatic performance of a task.

Nested if statement

A nested if statement is an if statement placed inside another if statement. There are two ways to make one. We can place an if statement inside the if code of another if statement. Before that nested if statement executes, both its condition and that of the preceding if statement have to be True.

Method

Collection of statements written in a programming language to describe a specific behavior.

Behavior

An action that an object can take or a task it can perform in response to a request from an external source.

Preconditions

Assumptions of what is true before the method is called.

Post-conditions

What will be true after the method is finished.

Pretest while structure

(also called a while loop) is used to define a block of code that will be executed repeatedly as long as a specified condition is true.

Simple condition

has one part. In the Jeroo language, a simple condition is formed by invoking a single sensor method.

Compound condition

A compound condition uses logical operators. The Jeroo language contains the three most commonly used logical operators: !(NOT), &&(AND), ||(OR).

Boolean

A binary variable, having two possible values called “true” and “false.”