ICT Definitions Flashcards
What is a chatbot?
A software application that uses text to ask questions to help a user.
What is a flowchart?
this is a visual representation of an algorithm.
What is a rule-based chatbot?
A chat bot with a set of questions built in that it asks to help the user
What is evolving?
Changing and improving.
What is Artificial intelligence?
The ability of a computer system to learn & develop its own programming by past experiences.
What is machine learning?
Ability of a computer system to learn over time.
What is a datatype?
Classification applied to a data item specifying what type of data that item represents.
What is a program?
instructions that tell a computer system how to complete a task.
What is an algorithm?
Step-by-step instructions to solve a particular problem.
What is a string?
Sequence of characters that can be text , numbers or symbols; quotation marks around the characters define it as a string.
What is a Character
Single digit, letter or symbol.
What is an integer?
a whole number
what is a real/float datatype?
A decimal number.
what is concatenation?
joining 2 strings together.
what is to ‘cast’?
to change the datatype of a variable.
