CSE 101: Intro to Programming (Non CS Majors)

Flowchart

Graphical (picture) language for creating or viewing computer programs and how they operate

Statement

An instruction that is executed sequentially (Start → Declare variables A, B and C → read A, B, and C → etc.)

Interpreters

A tool that runs a program’s statements

String literal

Text within double quotes “….”

Newline

\n ; Causes the following text to print on a new line

Pseudo Code

Human-readable text in order to further understand how the code works

Python Interpreter

Executes code in python

Interactive Interpreter

Allows the coder to run one line of code at a time

Prompt

“> > >” Indicates program is ready to be run

Expression

code that returns a value when some computations is performed using variables

Assignment

When a value is stored to a variable with = (wage = 20)

Syntax Errors

Made when violating a programming language’s rules in implemented statements that are combined to create a program

Variable

A name that can hold a value

Run

The act of carrying out each statement’s actions

program

A sequence of statements that are executed one at a time/sequentially

Input value shape

In flowcharts, this is represented by parallelograms