BlackBox Programming Flashcards
1
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What is a Black Box
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The person inputting knows what the output is, but they don’t know how the program achieved that output.
2
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Precondition
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A condition that must be true in order for the method to work as expected
3
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Postcondition
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A condition that is guaranteed to be true after a method is called, given that the preconditions were met
4
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What does API stand for
A
Application Program Interface
5
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What does an API do?
A
Allows applications to interact with another piece of software
6
Q
Abstraction
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Underlying code from software accessed from an API is not shown
7
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Libraries
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The collection of code that implements the API
8
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Package
A
Group of related classes and interfaces, allow for easy access to classes that provide a certain type of functionality
Example: java.util package
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