Informatics

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

 a specialized software designed to assist programmers in creating, editing, and managing code efficiently

class header

consists of the class keyword and the name of the class

comment

a text note to explain or annotate the code and is ignored when the program is run

compiler

a special program that translates code written in one programming language (like Java) into another language (like machine code that your computer understands)

source code

a collection of programming commands

syntax

the rules for how a programmer must write code for a computer to understand

syntax error

a mistake in the code that does not follow a programming language's syntax

attribute

a characteristic of an object

behavior

 an action that an object can perform

class

 a programmer-defined blueprint from which objects are created

object

 an instance of a class

object-oriented programming

an approach to creating and using models of physical or imagined objects

constructor

a block of code that has the same name as the class and tells the computer how to create a new object

exception

a type of run-time error that interrupts the normal flow of the program's execution

instantiate

to call the constructor to create an object

run-time error

a mistake in the program that occurs during the execution of a program