Unit 1

Question 1

Software Engineer

Answer 1

A person who designs, develops, and tests software for home, school, and business use

Question 2

Class Header

Answer 2

Consists of the class keyword and the name of the class

Question 3

Inegrated Development Software (IDE)

Answer 3

A software application for writing, compiling, testing, and debugging program code

Question 4

Software

Answer 4

A collection of instructions that is run by a computer

Question 5

Source Code

Answer 5

A collection of programming commands

Question 6

Syntax

Answer 6

The rules for how a programmer must write code for a computer to understand

Question 7

Syntax Error

Answer 7

A mistake in the code that does not follow a programming language’s syntax

Question 8

Attribute

Answer 8

A characteristic of an object

Question 9

Behavior

Answer 9

An action that an object can perform

Question 10

Bug

Answer 10

An error in the code

Question 11

Class

Answer 11

A programmer-defined blueprint from which objects are created

Question 12

Constructor

Answer 12

A block of code that has the same name as the class and tells the computer how to create a new object

Question 13

Debugging

Answer 13

Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program

Question 14

Instantiate

Answer 14

To call the constructor to create an object

Question 15

Object

Answer 15

An instance of a class

Question 16

Object-oriented programming language

Answer 16

An approach to creatin and using models of physical or imagined objects

Question 17

Package

Answer 17

A collection of similar classes

Question 18

State

Answer 18

The attributes of an object that are represented by its instance variables

Question 19

Procedural Abstraction

Answer 19

Allows a programmer to use a method knowing what the method does even if they do not know how the method was written

Question 20

Void Method

Answer 20

A method that performs an action but does not return a value

Question 21

Argument

Answer 21

A value passed to a method or constructor when the method or constructor is called

Question 22

Dot Operator

Answer 22

Used to call a method in a class

Question 23

Method

Answer 23

A named set of instructions to perform a task

Question 24

Parameter

Answer 24

A variable in the method or constructor signature that defines the type of value to receive when the method or constructor is called

Question 25

Boolean

Answer 25

A primitive data type that can be either true or false

Question 26

If Statement

Answer 26

A conditional statement that only executes when the condition is true or false

Question 27

Condition

Answer 27

Determines whether or not to execute a block of code

Question 28

Conditional Statement

Answer 28

A statement that only executes when a condition is true or false

Question 29

Logic Error

Answer 29

An error that occurs when the code runs but does not do what was expected

Question 30

Return

Answer 30

To exit a method and go back to the point int the program that called it with the requested value or information

Question 31

Method Signature

Answer 31

Consists of a name and a parameter list