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AP Comp Sci
Unit 1.1 Why Programming? Terms and Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Programming | The process of creating code |
Binary Code | The sets of 0s and 1s that a computer is able to understand |
Programming Language | Accepts code and converts it into binary code for the computer to read. Intermediary between human and machine. |
Low-level programming language | Programming languages which are more similar to binary code understood by computers than textual code understood by humans |
High-level programming languages | Programming languages which are more textual and easier to understand by humans |
Compiler | Converts code from high-level programming languages into binary code for the computer to understand |
Public | A modifier for the class which shows that anyone can see the class |
Class | A blueprint for objects |
Void | A keyword that shows that the method will not return a value. |
System.out.println() | Tells the system to print a new line for the content it is printing onto the console |
System.out.print() | Prints the given content on the current line |
String literal | Anything that is within double quotations; can be influenced by all methods that affect the string class |
main | This is a method that enables the java program to run other methods, and can be placed in any class. |
.length() | This is a method that finds the number of characters within a string |