Terms to Remember
These are terms that you should know the definition of for all exams this semester, including the 1st partial exam. You should search for these remembering to ensure you are looking at definitions in a “computing” definition.
- Algorithm
- Argument (as in the value passed to a parameter)
- Assembly language
- Assigning (a value to a variable)
- Comment
- Compiler
- Computer
- Constant
- Data
- Debug
- Declaration (of a variable)
- Directive
- Executable file
- Function
- High level programming language
- IDE. Integrated Development Environment
- Initialization
- Input
- Interpreter
- Library
- License
- Linking
- Low Level Programming Language
- Machine code
- Object code
- Open source
- Operand
- Operating system
- Operator
- Output
- Parameter
- Programming languages
- Proprietary software
- Semantics
- Source code
- Syntax
- Variable
Glossary by Ken Bauer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.