02 Algorithms Revision

What is an algorithm?

• A set of detailed instructions for completing a task

• breaking the problem into a number of sub-problems

• A set of instructions for a computer

• the process of removing unnecessary detail

Name a data types

Name another data type

Name another another data type

What is abstraction?

• breaking the problem into a number of sub-problems

• A set of detailed instructions for completing a task

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• the process of removing unnecessary detail

What is decomposition?

• breaking the problem into a number of sub-problems

• the process of removing unnecessary detail

• A set of detailed instructions for completing a task

• breaking an algorithm

What is the difference between a constant and a variable?

What is selection?

• The repetition of a block of statements within a computer program.

• A decision determines which path a program takes when it is running

• The order in which instructions occur and are processed

• Setting the value of a variable in a computer program.

What is iteration?

• The repetition of a block of statements within a computer program.

• A decision determines which path a program takes when it is running

• The order in which instructions occur and are processed

• Setting the value of a variable in a computer program.

What is a subroutine?

• Code written outside of the main program. The umbrella term for procedures and functions.

• A decision determines which path a program takes when it is running

• The order in which instructions occur and are processed

• Setting the value of a variable in a computer program.