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Vocabulary

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Source Code   A program in a high-level language, before being compiled  
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Statement   A part of a program that specifies a computation  
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Method   A named collection of statements.  
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Syntax Error   An error in a program that makes it impossible to parse (and therefore impossible to compile).  
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Parse   To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure.  
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Exception   An error in a program that makes it fail at run-time. Also called a run-time error.  
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Logic Error   An error in a program that makes it do something other than what the programmer intended.  
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Debugging   The process of finding and removing any of the three kinds of errors.  
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Declaration   A statement that creates a new variable and determines its type.  
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Assignment   A statement that assigns a value to a variable.  
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Operator   A symbol that represents a computation like addition, multiplication or string concatenation.  
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Concatenate   The operation of joining two strings together.  
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Initialization   A statement that declares a new variable and assigns a value to it at the same time.  
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Parameter   A piece of information a method requires before it can run. They are variables, contain values, and have types.  
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Argument   A value that you provide when you invoke a method. This value must have the same type as the corresponding parameter.  
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Casting   Taking an Object of one particular type and “turning it into” another Object type.  
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Truncate   To shorten it, or cut part of it off.the term is often used in reference to data types or variables, such as floating point numbers and strings.  
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