1.5 GUIs in Python

A standard format for communicating and documenting software design.

• bounding box
• Unified Modeling Language
• Base Case
• Slider

The condition under which a recursive function returns without calling itself, thereby ending the recursive calls.

• Video Card
• Sector
• Scope
• Base Case

An angle with its vertex at the center of a circle.

• Central Angle
• Global Scope
• Procedural Abstraction
• Local Scope

A hardware component that delivers graphic output to the monitor, usually with its own memory and highly parallel processing power.

• Slider
• Video Card
• Base Case
• Velocity

A rectangle that tightly encloses a 2D space shape or image.

• Button
• Bounding Box
• Programming Paradigm
• Widget

A variable with a scope that is limited; in Python, a local scope is created by the def and class keywords, and the scope is the block of code they create.

• Global Scope
• Local Scope
• Recursion
• Scope

A standard component of a GUI.

• Scope
• Widget
• Button
• Slider

The study of how humans give input to and receive output from a computer.

• Tracer Route
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Sector
• Local Scope

Design of tools that carefully considers the human body with emphasis on health concerns and ease of use.

• Button
• Ergonomics
• Recursion
• Velocity

An algorithmic problem with well-known solutions, including insertion sort, bubble sort, and merge sort.

• Virtual Reality
• Searching a List
• Bounding Box
• Sorting a List