UNIT 6 VOCAB

Question 1

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What is a LIST?

Answer 1

is an ordered collection of elements

Question 2

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What is an ELEMENT?

Answer 2

is an individual value in a list that is assigned a unique index

Question 3

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What is an INDEX?

Answer 3

a common method for referencing the elements in a list or string using numbers

Question 4

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What is a DATA ABSTRACTION?

Answer 4

complexity in programs by giving a collection of data a name without referencing the specific details of the representation

Question 5

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What is ITERATION?

Answer 5

a repetitive portion of an algorithm which repeats a specified number of times or until a given condition is met.

Question 6

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What is an INFINITE LOOP?

Answer 6

occurs when the ending condition will never evaluate to true. In other words, the Boolean expression will never evaluate to false.

Question 7

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What is a TRAVERSAL?

Answer 7

the process of accessing each item in a list one at a time

Question 8

What is SEQUENCING?

Answer 8

An algorithm is a step-by-step process, and the order of those steps are crucial to ensuring the correctness of an algorithm.

Question 9

What is SELECTION?

Answer 9

to determine a different set of steps to execute based on a Boolean expression.

Question 10

What is it called when a loop keeps on repeating forever?

Answer 10

Infinite Loop