Terms to Remember
Obviously this is course specific and needs updating.
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
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