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Description
Flashcards by Troy Bowlin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Troy Bowlin
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Problem Solving | The process of formulating a problem, finding a solution, and expressing the solution. |
| High-Level Language | A programming language like Python that is designed to be easy for humans to read and write |
| Low-Level Language | A programming language that is designed to be easy for a computer to execute; also called 'machine language' or 'assembly language' |
| Portability | a property of a program that can run on more than one kind of computer |
| Interpret | To execute a program in a high-level language by translating it one line at a time |
| Compile | To translate a program written in a high-level language into a low-level language all at once, in preparation for later execution |
| Source Code | A program in a high-level language before being compiled |
| Object Code | The output of the compiler after it translates the program |
| Executable | Another name for object code that is ready to be executed |
| Prompt | Characters displayed by the interpreter to indicate that it is ready to take input from the user |
| Script | A program stored in a file (usually one that will be interpreted) |
| Interactive Mode | A way of using the Python interpreter by typing commands and expressions at the prompt |
| Script Mode | A way of using the Python interpreter to read and execute statements in a script |
| Program | A set of instructions that specifies a computation |
| Algorithm | A general process for solving a category of problems |
| Bug | An error in a program |
| Debugging | The process of finding and removing any of the three kinds of programming errors |
| Syntax | The structure of a program |
| Syntax Error | An error in a program that makes it impossible to parse (and therefore impossible to interpret) |
| Exception | An error that is detected while the program is running |
| Semantics | The meaning of a program |
| Semantic Error | An error in a program that makes it do something other than what the programmer intended |
| Natural Language | Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally |
| Formal Language | Any one of the languages that people have designed for specific purposes, such as representing mathematical ideas or computer programs; all programming languages are formal languages |
| Token | One of the basic elements of the syntactic structure of a program, analogous to a word in a natural language |
| Parse | To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure |
| Print Statement | An instruction that causes the Python interpreter to display a value on the screen |
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