15.8: Vocabulary
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- iteration:
- Executing a sequence of statements repeatedly.
- loop:
- A statement that executes a sequence of statements repeatedly.
- loop body:
- The statements inside the loop.
- infinite loop:
- A loop whose condition is always true.
- program development:
- A process for writing programs. So far we have seen “incremental development” and “encapsulation and generalization”.
- encapsulate:
- To wrap a sequence of statements in a method.
- generalize:
- To replace something unnecessarily specific (like a constant value) with something appropriately general (like a variable or parameter).
- loop variable:
- A variable that is initialized, tested, and updated in order to control a loop.
- increment:
- Increase the value of a variable.
- decrement:
- Decrease the value of a variable.
- pretest loop:
- A loop that tests the condition before each iteration.
- posttest loop:
- A loop that tests the condition after each iteration.