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Unit 1.0 AP Vocabulary

AB
spriteLike an actor on the stage who knows how to do many different things, such as walk around the stage and speak the lines of the play
costumePicture that can be "worn" by a sprite
transparencyHow much you can see behind an image
listA ordered collection of items
stringA sequence of characters (letters, digits, punctuation, etc.)
substringA piece of some existing string
concatenateTo make a bigger string by connecting two or more smaller strings
debuggingThe process of testing, finding problems, and fixing them
procedureA named sequence of instructions that may take inputs and may report a value
reporterA block that reports a value and has an oval shape
commandA block that tells the computer to do something without reporting a value and has a jigsaw puzzle shape
expressionEither a constant value or a call to a reporter block including its inputs
valueCan be a number, a string, a sprite, a costume, a script, a list—anything; what expressions are evaluated to produce
algorithmA sequence of steps that are usually performed by a computer
pseudocodeA algorithm written in human language
parameterThe input name
argumentThe input value
iterationA repeating program structure
personally identifiable informationInformation that can let others figure out who you are
infinite loopWhen a program keeps running forever
code segmentA sequence of steps that are usually performed by a computer


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Charlotte, NC

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