Unit 7 Vocab Lesson 1-3

A variable in a function definition. Used as a placeholder for values that will be passed through the function.

• Variable

• Parameter

• Return

• Aurgument

Used to return the flow of control to the pint where the procedure (also known as a function) was called and to return the value of expression.

• Return

• Argument

• Procedural Abstraction

• Expression

The Value passed to the parameter.

• Return

• Variable

• Argument

• Function

A process and allows a procedure to be used only knowing what it does, not how it does it. Procedural abstraction allows a solution to a large problem to be based on the solution of smaller subproblems. This is accomplished by creating procedures to solve each of the subproblems.

• Library

• Application Programming Interface

• Return

• Procedural Abstraction

Specifications for how functions in a library behave and can be used.

• Variable

• Application Programming Interface

• Return

• User Interface

A group of functions (procedures) that may be used in creating new programs.

• Library

• String

• Expression

• Argument