comp sci vocab 1

• Alonzo Church   * Major contributor to early computer science 
• Sprite   * Like an actor on the stage who knows how to do many different things, such as walk around the stage and speak the lines of the play
• Costumes   * Picture that can be “worn” by a sprite 
• Transparency   * How much of an image you can see and what's behind it
• List   * An ordered sequence of items     * The items of this list are strings
• String   * A sequence of characters     * Letters, digits, punctuation, etc…
• Debugging   * Process of testing, finding problems, and fixing them is called debugging
• Procedure   * Named sequence of instructions that may take inputs and may report a value   * Reporters     * Have an oval shape     * They report a value    * Commands     * Have a jigsaw puzzle shape     * Tell the computer to do something without reporting a value 

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