C173 Ultimate Study Guide (all answered)

abstraction correct answers Focus on the essential qualities of something rather than one specific example. actors correct answers An Actor in a use case is anything with behavior who lives outside of your system, outside of your application, but has a goal they want to accomplish within. algorithm correct answers A set of commands that return a value. This differs from a procedure, which is a set of commands that doesn't necessarily have to return a value. append() correct answers Mutates List by adding Element to the end of the list. argument correct answers The inputs to a procedure. Also called operands. attributes correct answers Characteristics of an object which may be used to reference other objects or save object state information. name = expression correct answers This is an assignment statement. A variable is named and also assigned a value or expression. If multiple values are assigned to the same named variable, the last assignment is the one used. base case correct answers An expression that has a value and is not defined in terms of some other thing we are defining. This breaks the chain of recursion. Boolean correct answers A value that is either True or False circular definition correct answers A definition that doesn't give us answers because it never finishes. It is stuck in a loop with each reference pointing to another reference. It has no base case. class correct answers Describes what an object will be, but it isn't the object itself. This is a blueprint for that object. ClassName (BaseClass): Block correct answers How to define a class in Python class diagram (UML) correct answers The most common diagram in Object-Oriented Design. Shows the system classes and relationships between them. Diagrams the primary attributes and primary operations for each class. code modularity correct answers Dividing software or an application into smaller modules. This provides prewritten code which saves resources and provides greater manageability. comparison operator correct answers Used to make a comparison between two values.