1.1.6 - 1.1.8 Notes

Question 1

part of a program that causes an error or undesired output

Answer 1

bug

Question 2

process of figuring out why code doesn’t behave as expected and eliminating bugs to make it work as desired

Answer 2

debug

Question 3

code executed in the order it appears in the code segment

Answer 3

sequentially

Question 4

when a variable is given a value for the first time

Answer 4

initialize

Question 5

a computer program that converts a higher-level language into a lower-level language and then executes it

Answer 5

interpret

Question 6

strings that use ‘’’ ‘’’, can span multiple lines, used to temporarily deactivate code

Answer 6

block string

Question 7

variable that store an integer with increasing/decreasing value

Answer 7

incrementing counter

Question 8

repeating portion of an algorithm, repeats until a given condition is met

Answer 8

iteration

Question 9

an ordered collection of items or values

Answer 9

list

Question 10

a value with the list that is assigned a unique index

Answer 10

element

Question 11

to remove an item from a list

Answer 11

pop

Question 12

to add on an item to the end of a list

Answer 12

append

Question 13

in each iteration step, a variable is set to a value in a sequence or other data collection

Answer 13

loop variable

Question 14

a comparison, usually in a while or if statement that evaluates a Boolean expression to true or false

Answer 14

conditional

Question 15

a feature of a programming language that performs different computations or actions depending on whether a Boolean expression is true or false

Answer 15

conditional statement

Question 16

when parts of an algorithm are executed based on a condition being true/false

Answer 16

selection