CMSC Vocab 4 and 5

Question 1

Helper Method

Answer 1

A method that allows a sequence of instructions to be treated as a single unit of work.

Question 2

Modularity

Answer 2

Refers to the organization of code into dependent units with sharply defined responsibilities

Question 3

Separation of Concerns

Answer 3

Thinking separately about elements of a problem that were logically dependent.

Question 4

header

Answer 4

specifics the name of the method and return type

Question 5

body

Answer 5

group of statements surrounded by curly braces. It is executed whenever the method is called.

Question 6

access specifiers

Answer 6

A keyword that determines where a class member, such as a method, is accessible or visible

Question 7

principle of least privilege

Answer 7

Access to code is limited to those parts of an application that actually need it for proper functioning

Question 8

return type

Answer 8

The type of value returned a method

Question 9

method parameter

Answer 9

A name used by a method for an argument received from its caller.

Question 10

monolithic program

Answer 10

is one in which all functionality is packed into a single block of code.

Question 11

conditional executions

Answer 11

which enables one or more statements to be executed only if a specified condition holds.

Question 12

decision statements

Answer 12

a decision to be executed if a specified condition holds.

Question 13

Boolean expression

Answer 13

expressions that evaluate to true or false

Question 14

binary operator

Answer 14

applied to exactly two operands

Question 15

unary operators

Answer 15

act on a single command

Question 16

tenary operator

Answer 16

three way operator

Question 17

relational operator

Answer 17

relating pairs of numbers

Question 18

less than operator

Answer 18

x < y

Question 19

shallow equality

Answer 19

variables referring to the same object

Question 20

deep equality

Answer 20

referring to objects in the same state

Question 21

=

Answer 21

x = (GETS the value of) 1

Question 22

switch value

Answer 22

execute one of several possible statements depending on a particular value.

Question 23

case labels

Answer 23

labels to identify case statments

Question 24

all subsequent cases

Answer 24

all cases that are followed will be treated as matches

Question 25

fall-through behavior

Answer 25

when cases are automatically treated as matches

Question 26

conditional operator

Answer 26

operators that are determined based on conditions of a value

Question 27

conjunction

Answer 27

(AND)

Question 28

disjunction

Answer 28

(OR)

Question 29

negation

Answer 29

(NOT)

Question 30

conditional operator

Answer 30

|| (OR)

Question 31

conditional AND operator

Answer 31

&& used to combine nested conditions

Question 32

short circuit evaluation

Answer 32

Both conditions need to be true in order for something to go through

Question 33

arithmetic compound assignment operator

Answer 33

operators that includes the += and -= (plus-get and minus-get)

Question 34

increment

Answer 34

++

Question 35

decrement operator

Answer 35

–

Question 36

postfix form

Answer 36

int x = 3; int y = 8; x++; // same as x += 1; y–; // same as y -= 1; System.out.println(x + “ “ + y); // 4 7

Question 37

prefix form

Answer 37

++x and –y

Question 38

follows

Answer 38

postfix form would…

Question 38

precede

Answer 38

prefix form would…

Question 42

syntactic sugar

Answer 42

The increment and decrement operators, compound assignment operators, and the ternary if-else operator are all examples of this