APCSP Unit 3 Vocabulary

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

• Assignment operator

• Variable

• Assignment

• Expression

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

• Assignment operator

• Variable

• Assignment

• Expression

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

• Assignment operator

• Variable

• Assignment

• Expression

Storing or updating a value in a named variable

• Assignment operator

• Variable

• Assignment

• Expression

Add one to a number

• Sequential

• Operators

• Statement

• Increment

• Iteration

A line of executable code

• Sequential

• Operators

• Statement

• Increment

• Iteration

 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.

• Sequential

• Operators

• Statement

• Increment

• Iteration

 Are used to script math equations and string handling

• Sequential

• Operators

• Statement

• Increment

• Iteration

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. 

• Sequential

• Operators

• Statement

• Increment

• Iteration

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

• Debug

• High-Level Programming Language

• Natural Language

• Pseudocode

• Machine Language