Intro to Programming Vocabulary

Intro to Programming Vocabulary

1. Algorithm - A set of instructions to solve a problem.

2. Sequencing - Order that a program will execute in.

3. Selection - What is picked based on conditional/comparing.

4. Iteration - Repeating until you get an outcome

5. High-Level Language - More complex; Languages that more closely resemble English

6. Low-Level Language - Language that computers actually speak(Binary)

7. Turtle Programming - Classic learning method for command-based programming that control movement and draws an on-screen robot called a "turtle".

8. Function - A section of a program that performs a specific task.

9. Abstraction - Simplified representation of something more complex. Hides details to manage complexity.

10. API - A collection of commands made available to a programmer.

11. Parameter - An extra piece of info that you pass to the function to customize it for a specific need.

12. Documentation - A description of behavior of a command, function, library, API, etc.

13. Comment - Used in code to explain their thinking to a human reader.

14. Iteration - "loop" - the repetition of a statement, process, or procedure.