APCSP Vocab Unit 7

Immutable

Object or value that is unable to be changed once it’s been created

Data structure

A particular way of organizing data within programs

Heterogeneous

Team of any type that can be stored; numeric, strings, Booleans, etc

Tuple

Heterogenous, immutable data type that stored an ordered sequence of things

Mutable

Changeable or has the ability to change

Type conversion

Converting the value of one date type(integer, string, float, etc) to another data type

List

Heterogenous, mutable date type that stored an ordered sequence of things

Join

Takes all items in a collection and joins them into one string

for Loop

Repeats code a fix number of times

List indexing

Accessing certain elements in a list

Count

Method that counts occurrences of specific items in a list

Append

Adds a particular item to the END of a list

Extend

Adds elements from an iterable (list, tuple, or set) to the end of the existing list

Sort

Sorts the list in ascending order by default

Reverse

Reverses the sorting order of the elements

Remove

Removes the first occurrence of an element with a specified value

Simulation

Animated model that represents a real-life thing, process or situation

Model

Set of rules for how things interact within a simulation