AP CSP Unit 1 Vocab

A collection of public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work, used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created.

• Creative Commons

• Intellectual Property

• Catalog

• Apple Music

A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a piece of writing or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.

• Creative Commons

• Intellectual Property

• Catalog

• myStuff

8 bits is a _______.

• lot of information

• byte

• megabyte

• decimal

A system for representing numbers using combinations of the digits 0 – 9

• decimal

• digital

• octal

• hexadecimal

• binary

A way of representing information using only two options

• decimal

• digital

• octal

• hexadecimal

• binary

The single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1

• duobit

• megabit

• bit

• micro:bit

• binary

A process for creating a digital representation of analog data by measuring the analog data at regular intervals.

• Sampling

• Lossless Compression

• Lossy Compression

• Erroring

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something in which some information is lost or thrown away. This process is NOT reversible.

• Sampling

• Lossless Compression

• Lossy Compression

• Erroring

• Rounding

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something without losing any information. This process IS reversible.

• Sampling

• Lossless Compression

• Lossy Compression

• Erroring

• Rounding

Data that changes discretely through a finite set of possible values.

• Digital Data

• Analog Data

• Sampled Data

• Filtered Data

• Unlimited Data