Unit 7 vocab

parameter: a variable in a function defintion. Used as a placeholder for values that will be passed through the function.

Arguement: the value passed to the parameter

Return: Used to return the flow of the control to the point where the procedure (also known as a function) was called and to also return the value of the expression.

Procedural Abstraction: A process that allows a procedure to be used only knowing what it does, not how it does it. Procedural abstraction allows a solution to a large problem to be based on the solutionof smaller subproblems. This is accommplished be creating procedures to solve each of the subproblems.

Library: a group of functions (procedures) that may be used in creating new programs.

API (Application Program Interface) : specifications for how functions in a library behave and can be used.

Modularity: the subdivsion of a computer into seperate subprograms

Updated Procedural abstraction: Provides a name for a proccess and allows the pricuders (function) to be used only knowing what it does, and not neccisarly how it does it.