NAT4 SDD Glossary

Assignment is the process of assigning a value to a variable.

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Meaningful Identifiers are variable names that relate to the data that the variable is storing.

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End – user is the person/persons who will be using an item of software once it has been developed.

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Functional Requirements are the input, processing and output operations that a computer system (software) is required to perform.

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High-level language is a programming language that uses English command words to make the process of software development easier and quicker.

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(N5) Machine code is the computer’s own programming language where instructions and data are written in binary codes.

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(N5) Interpreter is a translator program which converts high-level language code into machine code one instruction at a time when the program is run.

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(N5) Compiler is a translator program which converts high-level language code into stand-alone machine code.

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AND is a logical operator that requires both of two conditions to be true.

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(N5) An Array is data structure that stores a list of items of the same data type.

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