Data
A way of representing information using only two options.
An agreed-upon set of rules that specify the behavior of some system.
What is a protocol?
Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program.
What is debugging?
A finite set of instructions that accomplish a task
What is an algorithm
This is software intended to damage a computing system or to take partial control over its operation
What is malware?
A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again
Function (a procedure is a type of function)
The maximum amount of data that can be sent in a fixed amount of time, usually measured in bits per second.
What is bandwidth?
A named reference to a value that can be used repeatedly throughout a program.
What is a variable?
A search algorithm that starts at the middle of a sorted set of numbers and removes half of the data; this process repeats until the desired value is found or all elements have been eliminated.
What is a binary search?
a process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only "authorized" parties can read it.
What is encryption?
a collection of commands made available to a programmer - it's the way programs communicate with other programs
What is an API?
A chunk of data sent over a network.
What is a packet?
A data type that is either true or false.
What is a boolean value?
A search algorithm that 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?
This involves one key for both encryption and decryption.
What is symmetric key encryption?
a mathematical operation that returns the remainder after integer division. Example: 7 MOD 4 = 3
A computer network consisting of interconnected networks that use standardized, open (nonproprietary) communication protocols.
What is the internet?
A process that allows a procedure to be used only knowing what it does, not how it does it.
What is procedural abstraction?
This provides a "good enough" solution to a problem when an actual solution is impractical or impossible
What is a Heuristic?
In an asymmetric encryption scheme the decryption key is kept private and never shared, so only the intended recipient has the ability to decrypt a message that has been encrypted with a public key.
What is a private key?
This error occurs when attempting to represent a number that is too small.
What is a Round-off Error?
A group of interconnected computing devices capable of sending or receiving data
What is a computer network?
This manages complexity in programs by giving a collection of data a name without referencing the specific details of the representation.
What is data abstraction?
To repeat in order to achieve, or get closer to, a desired goal.
What is iteration?
Pairs a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption. The sender does not need the receiver’s private key to encrypt a message, but the receiver’s private key is required to decrypt the message
What is public key encryption?