1.8: Glossary
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- problem solving:
- The process of formulating a problem, finding a solution, and expressing it.
- high-level language:
- A programming language like Python that is designed to be easy for humans to read and write.
- low-level language:
- A programming language that is designed to be easy for a computer to run; also called “machine language” or “assembly language”.
- portability:
- A property of a program that can run on more than one kind of computer.
- interpreter:
- A program that reads another program and executes it
- prompt:
- Characters displayed by the interpreter to indicate that it is ready to take input from the user.
- program:
- A set of instructions that specifies a computation.
- print statement:
- An instruction that causes the Python interpreter to display a value on the screen.
- operator:
- A special symbol that represents a simple computation like addition, multiplication, or string concatenation.
- value:
- One of the basic units of data, like a number or string, that a program manipulates.
- type:
- A category of values. The types we have seen so far are integers (type int), floating-point numbers (type float), and strings (type str).
- integer:
- A type that represents whole numbers.
- floating-point:
- A type that represents numbers with fractional parts.
- string:
- A type that represents sequences of characters.
- natural language:
- Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally.
- formal language:
- Any one of the languages that people have designed for specific purposes, such as representing mathematical ideas or computer programs; all programming languages are formal languages.
- token:
- One of the basic elements of the syntactic structure of a program, analogous to a word in a natural language.
- syntax:
- The rules that govern the structure of a program.
- parse:
- To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure.
- bug:
- An error in a program.
- debugging:
- The process of finding and correcting bugs.