Unit 1 Flashcards
Software Engineer
A person who designs, develops, and tests software for home, school, and business use
Class Header
Consists of the class keyword and the name of the class
Inegrated Development Software (IDE)
A software application for writing, compiling, testing, and debugging program code
Software
A collection of instructions that is run by a computer
Source Code
A collection of programming commands
Syntax
The rules for how a programmer must write code for a computer to understand
Syntax Error
A mistake in the code that does not follow a programming language’s syntax
Attribute
A characteristic of an object
Behavior
An action that an object can perform
Bug
An error in the code
Class
A programmer-defined blueprint from which objects are created
Constructor
A block of code that has the same name as the class and tells the computer how to create a new object
Debugging
Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program
Instantiate
To call the constructor to create an object
Object
An instance of a class
Object-oriented programming language
An approach to creatin and using models of physical or imagined objects
Package
A collection of similar classes
State
The attributes of an object that are represented by its instance variables
Procedural Abstraction
Allows a programmer to use a method knowing what the method does even if they do not know how the method was written
Void Method
A method that performs an action but does not return a value
Argument
A value passed to a method or constructor when the method or constructor is called
Dot Operator
Used to call a method in a class
Method
A named set of instructions to perform a task
Parameter
A variable in the method or constructor signature that defines the type of value to receive when the method or constructor is called
Boolean
A primitive data type that can be either true or false
If Statement
A conditional statement that only executes when the condition is true or false
Condition
Determines whether or not to execute a block of code
Conditional Statement
A statement that only executes when a condition is true or false
Logic Error
An error that occurs when the code runs but does not do what was expected
Return
To exit a method and go back to the point int the program that called it with the requested value or information
Method Signature
Consists of a name and a parameter list
