"The Way of the Program" Definitions
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| Activecode | Environment that lets Python be run in browser.
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| Algorithm | Step by step process to solve a problem
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| Bug | Error in a program
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| Byte Code | Intermediate language between source code and object code.
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| Codelens | Lets code by run line by line, step by step.
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| Comment | Not part of code. Lets programmer give information
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| Compule | Making high level language to low level language at once. "Translating entire book"
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| Debugging | Finding and removing any programming errors
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| Exception | Run time Error
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| Executable | object code that is ready to be executed
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| Formal Language | Language designed for specific purposes, such as representing math, or programs. All programming languages are formal.
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| Interpret | To execute a program in a high level language by translating it one line at a time
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| Low-level language | Programming language that is easy for a computer to execute. Aka machine language or assembly language
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| Natural Language | A language that people speak that eveoved naturally
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| Object Code | Output from compiler after translation
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| Parse | To examine a program, and analyze the synactic structure
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| Portability | the ability of a program to run on more than one type of computer
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| Print function | Lets python interpreter display a value on output device
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| Problem Solving | Formulating a problem, finding a solution, and expressing it.
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| Program | a sequence of instructions that specifies to a computer actions and computations to be performed
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| Programming language | formal notation for representing solutions
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| Python Shell | interactive UI to the interpreter, prompt of (>>>)
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| Runtime error | error that occurs once the program has started to execute but that prevents the program from continuing.
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| Syntax | Structure of a program
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| Shell mode | Typing instructions to python, and the results are shown immediately.
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| Source code | Program stored in a file. High level language, needed to be compiled or interpreted.
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| Syntax error | error in program that makes it impossible to parse, and therefore impossible to interpret
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| token | basic element of the syntactic structure.
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