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1 - Comp Abilities
CS Principles: Big Ideas in Programming
Question | Answer |
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code | a set of instructions that a computer can understand |
comment | explain what we're doing in the programs and are intended to be read by people, and not computers |
dot-notation | how you ask an object to do something in Python |
library | group of programs that provide some functionality |
pixel | one small part(element) of a picture |
program | a set of instructions that a computer can understand to accomplish a goal |
Screen | part of the Turtle library; space for turtle to move in and draw on |
string | anything we can type between a pair of single, double, or triple quotes; a sequence of characters |
variable | a name associated with computer memory that can hold a value and that value can be changed. |
Computer | a device that can perform actions on input (which is also called data) |
Java | programming language used in Advanced Placement Computer Science |
Program | s a set of instructions that a computer can understand to accomplish some goal |
Programming Language | used to tell a computer what to do |
Programming Tool | Programming Tool |
Python | programming language used in Computer Science Principles |
Turing Machine | theoretical computer that can read instructions from a tape and write results to the tape |