AP CS A Unit 1 Vocabulary

Act of representing essential features without including the background details

• Abstraction

• Algorithm

• Modular programming

• Incremental design

Dividing a program into smaller components

• Modular programming

• Component programming

• Division programming

• Simple programming

Ease of which one can read the code

• Readability

• Modular programming

• High-level programming

• Low-level programming

First letter of module name is lowercase and any new word begins with an uppercase letter

• Camel case

• Uppercase

• Lowercase

• ASCII code

Computer Science is the science that deals with the theory of processing info in digital computers.

• True

• False

Set of instructions forming a computer program which is executed by a computer

• Program code

• Directions

• Computer

• Regulations

Programs/applications that run on a computer

• Software

• Hardware

• Abstractions

• Algorithms

Set of commands, instructions, and other syntax used to create a software program

• Programming language

• Algorithm

• Hardware

• Innovation

Programming language that uses English-like statements and commands

• High-Level Programming Language

• Low-Level Programming Language

• Mid-Level Programming Language

• Leveled Programming Language

Programming language that uses machine code that a computer can understand for communicating instruction

• Low-Level Programming Language

• High-Level Programming Language

• Mid-Level Programming Language

• Leveled Programming Language