6.10: Glossary
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- temporary variable:
- A variable used to store an intermediate value in a complex calculation.
- dead code:
- Part of a program that can never run, often because it appears after a
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statement. - incremental development:
- A program development plan intended to avoid debugging by adding and testing only a small amount of code at a time.
- scaffolding:
- Code that is used during program development but is not part of the final version.
- guardian:
- A programming pattern that uses a conditional statement to check for and handle circumstances that might cause an error.