Unit 1
The single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.
What is binary?
An expression that evaluates to either true or false.
What is a boolean expression?
Add elements to the end of a list.
What is Append?
A measure of how many steps are needed to complete an algorithm.
What is Efficiency?
The amount of bits in a byte.
What is 8?
Error from attempting to represent a number that is too large.
What is an Overflow Error?
Affect the sequential flow of control by executing different statements based on the value of a Boolean expression.
What is a Conditional Statement?
A programming construct used to repeat a set of commands as long as a boolean condition is true.
What is a While Loop?
A search algorithm which checks each element of a list, in order, until the desired value is found or all elements in the list have been checked.
What is a Linear Search?
A command that executes the code within a function.
What is a function call?
Data with values that change continuously, or smoothly, over time. Some examples include music, colors of a painting, or position of a sprinter during a race.
What is Analog Data?
The difference between local and global variables.
What is global can be used anywhere in the program and local can only used in a specific place in a program?
Creating a subset of elements from an original list.
What is Filter?
A model in which programs are broken into small pieces, some of which are run simultaneously.
What is Parallel Computing?
The process of finding a path from sender to receiver
What is routing?
364 in binary
What is 101101100?
An error in a program that makes it do something other than what the programmer intended.
What is a Logic Error?
Loops that have a predetermined beginning, end, and increment (step interval).
What is a For Loop.
The run time of algorithms with a polynomial efficiency or lower (constant, linear, square, cube, etc.)
What is reasonable time?
The principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers
What is Net Neutrality?
Issue digital certificates that validate the ownership of encryption keys used in secure communications and are based on a trust model
What is Certificate Authority
Joins together two or more strings end-to-end to make a new string.
What is Concatenation?
A repetitive portion of an algorithm which repeats a specified number of times or until a given condition is met.
Iteration
A problem for which no algorithm can be constructed that is always capable of providing a correct yes-or-no answer.
What is an Undecidable Problem?
A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a piece of writing or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.
What is Intellectual Property?