C173 Version 3 Language Agnostic
input - Answer- A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard, touchscreen, network, etc. process - Answer- A program performs computations on that data, such as adding two values like x + y. Output - Answer- A program puts that data somewhere, such as to a file, screen, network, etc. variable - Answer- Used by programs to refer to data. It is a named item, used to hold a value. flowchart - Answer- A graphical language for creating computer programs. Program - Answer- A list of statements, each statement carrying out some action and executing one at a time. Run, execute - Answer- Words for carrying out a program's statements. String literal - Answer- Text (characters) within double quotes. Characters - Answer- Any letter (a-z, A-Z), digit (0-9), or symbol (~, !, @, etc.). newline - Answer- Special two-character sequence n whose appearance in an output string literal causes the cursor to move to the next output line. comment - Answer- Text a programmer adds to a program, to be read by humans (other programmers), but ignored by the program when executing. Moore's Law - Answer- Engineers have reduced switch sizes by half about every 2 years. bit - Answer- A single 0 or 1. byte - Answer- Eight bits. Ex. ASCII - Answer- American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Code that is the numerical representation of a character. Ex. Z would be stored in a computer as . Pseudocode - Answer- Text that resembles a program in a real programming language but is simplified to aid human understanding.
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