Unit 3: Programming

Unit 3: Programming

1. algorithms

   • set of instructions to solve a problem

2. sequencing

   • order a program will execute in

3. selection

   • what is picked based on conditional/comparing

4. iteration

   • repeating until certain outcome

5. High Level Language

   • more complex language (resembles English)
   • Low Level Language
     • language that a computer speaks

6. Turtle Programming

   • method to learn programming

7. Abstraction

   • simplified representation of something more complex
   • function: named group of programming instructions (reusable abstractions)

8. Top-Down Problem Solving

   • divides systems into simpler subsystems

9. API

   • collection of commands made available to a programmer

10. documentation

    • description of behavior of command, function...
    • Library
      • collection of commands, functions. with a shared purpose

11. parameter

    • extra piece of information that you pass to function for a specific need

12. comment

    • annotation in code of program

13. loop

    • a programming construct that repeats a group of commands