APCSP Unit 3 Vocabulary

A combination of operators and values that evaluates to a single value.

An abstraction inside the program that can hold a value. Each variable has associated data storage that represents one value at a time.

Allows a program to change the value represented by a variable.

Storing or updating a value in a named variable

Add one to a number

A line of executable code

 Execution of an algorithm or program, step by step, from top to bottom, where one line of code finishes before the one below it begins. One of the 3 fundamental algorithms or programming structures.

 Are used to script math equations and string handling

The fundamental program structure that repeats an algorithm for a purpose - either a set number of times or until a condition is met. One of the 3 fundamental algorithim or programming structures. 

A high level textual algorithm written in informative text that mimics a programming language but cannot be executed by a computer.