software engineer - Answers a person who designs, develops, and tests software for home, school, and
business use
class header - Answers consists of the class keyword and the name of the class
comment - Answers a text note to explain or annotate the code and is ignored when the program is run
source code - Answers a collection of programming commands
syntax - Answers the rules for how a programmer must write code for a computer to understand
syntax error - Answers a mistake in the code that does not follow a programming language's syntax
attribute - Answers a characteristic of an object
behavior - Answers an action that an object can perform
class - Answers a programmer-defined blueprint from which objects are created
object - Answers an instance of a class
object-oriented programming - Answers an approach to creating and using models of physical or
imagined objects
constructor - Answers a block of code that has the same name as the class and tells the computer how
to create a new object
instantiate - Answers to call the constructor to create an object
dot operator - Answers used to call a method in a class
method - Answers a named set of instructions to perform a task
argument - Answers the specific value provided when a method or constructor is called
parameter - Answers defines the type of value to receive when a method or constructor is called
string literal - Answers a sequence of characters enclosed in quotation marks ( " " )
algorithm - Answers a finite set of instructions that accomplish a task
condition - Answers determines whether or not to execute a block of code
iteration statement - Answers a control structure that repeatedly executes a block of code