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1 - General Intro
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| activecode | a unique interpreter that allows Python to be executed from within a web browser |
| algorithm | a general step by step process for solving a problem |
| bug | an error in a program |
| byte code | an intermediate language between source code and object code, typically interpreted by a virtual machine |
| codelens | an interactive environment that allows the user to control the step by step execution of a Python program |
| comment | information in a program that is meant for other programmers and has no effect on the execution of the program |
| compile | to translate a program written in a high-level language into a low-level language all at once, in preparation for later execution |
| debugging | the process of finding and removing any of the three kinds of programming errors |
| exception | a runtime error |
| executable | object code that has been compiled |
| formal language | any one of the languages that people have designed for specific purposes; all programming languages |
| high-level language | a programming language like Python that is designed to be easy for humans to read and write |
| interpret | to execute a program in a high-level language by translating it one line at a time. |
| low-level language | a programming language that is designed to be easy for a computer to execute; machine language or assembly language |
| natural language | any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally |
| object code | the output of the compile after it translates a program |
| parse | to examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure |
| portability | a property of a program that can run on more than one kind of computer |
| print function | used by a program or script that causes the Python interpreter to display a value on its output device |
| problem solving | process of formulating a problem, finding a solution, and expressing the solution |
| program | sequence of instructions that specify to a computer actions and computations to be performed |
| programming language | formal notation for representing solutions |
| Python shell | interactive user interface to the Python interpreter |
| runtime error | error that does not occur until the program has started to execute but that prevents the program from continuing |
| semantic error | error in a program that makes it do something other than what the programmer intended; logic error |
| semantics | meaning of a program |
| shell mode | style of using Python where we type expressions at the command prompt, and the results are shown immediately. |
| source code | program, stored in a file, in a high-level language before being compiled or interpreted. |
| syntax | the structure of a program |
| syntax error | error in a program that makes impossible to parse - and therefore impossible to interpret |
| token | one of the basic elements of the syntactic structure of a program, analogous to a word in a natural language |
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