APCSP Unit 3 Vocabulary

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A combination of operators and values that evaluates to a single value.

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Expression

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An abstraction inside the program that can hold a value. Each variable has associated data storage that represents one value at a time.

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Variable

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Allows a program to change the value represented by a variable.

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Assignment operator

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Storing or updating a value in a named variable

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Assignment

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Add one to a number

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Increment

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A line of executable code

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Statement

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Execution of an algorithm or program, step by step, from top to bottom, where one line of code finishes before the one below it begins. One of the 3 fundamental algorithms or programming structures.

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Sequential

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Are used to script math equations and string handling

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Operators

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The fundamental program structure that repeats an algorithm for a purpose - either a set number of times or until a condition is met. One of the 3 fundamental algorithm or programming structures.

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Iteration

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A high level textual algorithm written in informative text that mimics a programming language but cannot be executed by a computer.

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Pseudocode