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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