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Zyriah J. U1 - 1-3
Unit 1 Lessons 1-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ethics | the morals applied to a person's action |
| Plagiarism | the unethical act of passing off someone else's work as your own |
| Problem solver | A thinker that takes all of the knowledge and resources at hand to design solutions |
| Perserverance | the act if continuing to attempt something difficult, even if it takes a long time to succeed, often after many failures |
| Growth mindset | the belief that you can learn and grow through perseverance and resilience |
| Debugging | the process for searching for, identifying, and fixing errors |
| Facilitating questions | questions that are used to guide conversation rather than provide answers |
| Editor | the large window where we type our code (on the left) |
| Line Numbers | the number at the beginning of each line |
| Run | after we type in our code, we click the "Run" button to execute the program |
| Output Panel | this box contains error messages (bottom right) |
| Editor Keys | a button that when clicked, displays a list of shortcut keys |
| Comments | begin with two dashes and a space (--) ; they mark lines that are ignored by the computer; for comments with several lines use [-comments-] |
| Definition | have an equal sign separating the word that is being defined, at the left, from the expression that it stands for, at the right (the body) |
| Keywords | special words that are used to modify the way a computer program works (bold letters) |
| Identifiers | names of variables or functions |
| Operators | math symbols (+, -, *, /) |
| Punctuation | [ ] square brackets: used for lists ( ) round parentheses: used for tuples and arguments , comma: used to separate elements in lists and tuples |
| Literal Data | includes numbers such as 1 or texts that's enclosed in double quotes like "CHUCK WAGON" |
| Specification | a statements at the top of the input panel that specifies the purpose of the program (as a comment so it is ignored by the program |
| Documentation | a description of all of the available libraries for your reference |
| Library | A collection of predefined functions |
| Import Statement | Using keyword import followed by the name of the library being imported. Once the library is imported into code, the programmer an use an function defined in that library |
| Hanging indent | Formatting a paragraph, citation, or definition for which all lines except the first are indented |
| Header | Specification, name and date, import statement (s) |
| Body | Must contain" "program=", where the actual code is |
| Constructive Criticism | Suggesting improvements or questioning a decision in a healthy and supportive manner |