AP comp sci big data #3

Question 1

A group of programming instructions. They’re also known as methods or functions, depending on the programming language. You can use a procedure to use the same set of instructions, again and again, without having to rewrite it into your code.

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Procedure

Question 2

An individual value in a list.

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Element

Question 3

The details of how a procedure works are abstracted away. You only need to know the name of the procedure, the number and type of parameters, and the output to expect.

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Procedural Abstraction

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Attaching two things side-by-side, frequently strings.

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Concatenation

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Contains specifications for how the procedures in a library behave and can be used.

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API (Application Program Interface)

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computer programs separated into sub-programs

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Modularity

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The efficiency of algorithms deals with the resources needed to run it in terms of how long it will take and how much memory will be needed.

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Portability

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A simplified programming language.

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Pseudocode

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A problem that has a yes or no answer

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Decision Problem

Question 10

A statement that returns only one value.

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Expression

Question 11

Go through, a list

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Traverse

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+, -, *, /, %

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Arithmetic Operators

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Also called loops, and they repeat themselves over and over until the condition for stopping is met.

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Recursive

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uses division, but only provides the remainder as the answer, not the quotient.

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Concatenation

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Also called a sequential search algorithm, and it checks each value of a list in order until the result is found.

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Linear Search

Question 16

Text fields that are a series of characters and are with quotation marks around the text field

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String

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Process primarily takes the form of conditional statements known as if statements.

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Selection Statement

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Used with Boolean values to test the relationship between two values. ==, !=, >, <, >=, <=

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Relational Operators

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Designed to represent and mirror the real world for testing.

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Simulation

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problems that can’t be solved in a reasonable amount of time. turn into approximate solution.

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Heuristic

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Placeholders for values a program needs to use.

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Variable

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How easy it is to understand.

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Clarity

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Can only represent the values true or false.

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Boolean Values

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an input expression supplied to a function or procedure in the call statement.

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Argument

Question 25

The input variables of a procedure.

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Parameter