AP CSP Test #1

Question 1

when flag is clicked…

Answer 1

event-driven programming

Question 2

tabs: motion/variables

Answer 2

palettes

Question 3

white boxes/drop-downs

Answer 3

parameters

Question 4

what do we put inside of parameters?

Answer 4

input

Question 5

procedure

Answer 5

a named sequence of instructions that may have parameters to leave input and may return a value

Question 6

types of procedures

Answer 6

“reporter” & “command” blocks

Question 7

reporter blocks

Answer 7

ovals, & RETURN/report a value, “gossip”

Question 8

command blocks

Answer 8

have a puzzle shape, tells the computer to do something

Question 9

string

Answer 9

a sequence of characters, items in a list

Question 10

substrings

Answer 10

piece of already existing string, “Hanna,” “anna”, and “nnah” are each substrings of the string “Hannah.”

Question 11

concatenate

Answer 11

make a bigger string by connecting two or more

Question 12

if-else statement

Answer 12

a selection statement.
It’s called “selection” because, if whatever is in the space is true, the code in the top section gets selected and is executed. But if whatever is in the space is false, the code in the bottom section gets selected and is executed!

Question 13

FLOWCHART: oval

Answer 13

the start or end of the algorithim

Question 14

FLOWCHART: rectangle

Answer 14

process (an action step: move __)

Question 15

FLOWCHART: diamond

Answer 15

Condition, true? false?

Question 16

FLOWCHART: rhombus

Answer 16

message gets displayed, like say, “!”

Question 17

iteration

Answer 17

repeat-until statement
repeat statement

Question 18

what block is NOT considered iteration

Answer 18

the forever block is NOT considered iteration, there is no stopping condition!

Question 19

algorithim

Answer 19

sequence of statements

Question 20

procedures/functions/methods

Answer 20

may have parameters or return values

Question 21

getting “Called”

Answer 21

When a procedure gets executed as part of an algorithm, it’s sometimes said that the procedure gets “called”.

Question 22

Procedural abstraction

Answer 22

reduce complexity
Hiding all the “details” of how a pinwheel gets drawn.
Helping make your code easier to read and understand.
Eliminating the need to copy and paste the same code over and over!

Question 23

abstraction by generalization

Answer 23

Wrote a single procedure that includes the shared features, and used a parameter to handle the differences.