Chapter 6 Fruitful functions

Question 1

Temporary Variable

Answer 1

A variable used to store an intermediate value in a complex calculation.

Question 2

Dead Code

Answer 2

Part of a program that can never run, often because it appears after a return statement.

Question 3

Incremental Development

Answer 3

A program developed plan intended to avoid debugging by adding and testing only a small amount of code at a time.

Question 4

Scaffolding

Answer 4

Code that is used during program development but is not part of the final version.

Question 5

Guardian

Answer 5

A programming pattern that uses a conditional statement to check for and handle circumstances that might cause an error.