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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