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- 1Algorithma set of sequential instructions to complete
a specified task - 2iterationa single pass through a loop
- 3rouge valuea value that falls outside of the programs
parameters - 4variableare used to store information to be referenced and manipulated
and are also used to label data - 5data typea data type is an attribute of data which tells the compiler or interpreter how the programmer intends to use the data
- 6stringused to represent text
- 7floatlike an integer but can use decimal numbers such as 0.5
- 8booleantrue or false answer
- 9selectiona programming construct where a section of code is run only if a condition is met
- 10sub routinesmall blocks of code in a modular program designed to perform a particular task
- 11sequenceA set of logical steps carried out in order
- 12listan abstract data type that represents a countable number of ordered values
- 13arrayAn array is used to store a collection of data, but it is often more useful to think of an array as a collection of variables of the same type
- 14linear searcha method for finding an element within a list
- 15annotationa term used in computer programming to refer to documentation and comments that may be found on code logic
- 16incrementationare unary operators that add or subtract one, to or from their operand
- 17assignmentstatement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage locations denoted by a variable name
- 18declarationa language construct that specifies properties of an identifier: it declares what a word (identifier) "means"
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