PLTW CSP EOC Review

Maintains a running total.

• Aggregator Variable
• Best-so-far Variable
• Accumulator Variable
• Algorithm

Stores a list of values built up over time and remembers separate individual values.

• Accumulator Variable
• Aggregator Variable
• Global Variable
• Boolean Expression

A method of software development that emphasizes frequent client input to produce better end products.

• Fixed Variable
• Debugging
• Algorithm
• Agile Design

A step-by-step procedure, like a recipe, but often involving decisions.

• Code
• Algorithm
• Event Handler
• Encapsulation

Evaluates to either true or false; used in the conditional of an if-structure.

• Fixed Variable
• Boolean Expression
• If-structure
• Event Handler

The part of the computer that executes one instruction at a time.

• Motherboard
• keyboard
• Central Processing Unit (CPU, or core)
• mouse

The Boolean expression in an if-structure that is evaluated to determine which branch of code to execute.

• Boolean Expression
• Conditional
• If-structure
• Fixed Variable

The process of figuring out why code doesn’t behave as expected and eliminating bugs to make it work as desired.

• Bug
• Execute
• Event
• Debugging

Keeping details (like data and procedures) together in one part of a program so that programmers working on other parts of the program don’t need to know about them.

• Meta-information
• Method Call
• Encapsulation
• Most Recent Variable

A “trigger” from the user or from a program that causes a specific part of the program to execute.

• Execute
• Event
• Modular Code
• Sprite