Data & Abstraction
Reducing information and detail to focus on relevant concepts.
What is Abstraction?
A searching algorithm, used on sorted lists, that divides the number of elements to search in half until it is down to one element.
What is Binary Search?
Used in coding to store a value that cannot be changed.
What is a Constant?
The amount of resources available to transmit the data.
What is Bandwidth?
A type of scientific research that is conducted, in whole or in part, by distributed individuals who contribute relevant data to research using their own computing devices.
What is Citizen Science?
Sets of data that are larger than a consumer software application can handle.
What is Big Data?
An approach that gives results that are “good enough” when an exact answer is not necessary.
What is a Heuristic approach?
Finding errors in code.
What is Debugging?
Distributed denial-of-service attack, hackers flood a site with fake request making all the site’s recourses unavailable for legitimate users.
What is DDoS?
A form of intellectual property, which protects original forms of expression. Existed before Creative Commons.
What is Copyright?
The process of managing complexity by using a list or array to store related data without focusing on the individual elements’ implementation.
What is Data Abstraction?
A searching algorithm that starts at the first index and checks each element of the list one by one until it finds the item it is searching for.
What is Linear Search?
Continuously repeating steps, achieved in programming by using loops.
What is Iteration?
One of the smaller networks that make up the Internet. It contains many servers that act like phone books.
What is DNS(Domain Name System)?
The gap between those who have access to technology and those who do not.
What is Digital Divide?
Additional data about the main data, usually at the beginning of a file.
What is Metadata?
The logic structure in programming that uses if statements to select certain values
What is Selection?
Used in coding to store a value that can change.
What is a Variable?
A unique identifier for every device on the Internet
What is an IP Address?
Deals with your personal information, how it is stored, and how it is shared. The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.
What is Privacy?
Data compression that is not reversible after compression.
What is Lossy Compression?
A programming error that occurs during the execution of the program
What is a Run-time Error?
A programming error which occurs when the rules of the programming language are not followed
What is a Syntax Error?
A set of rules for breaking down requests into smaller, more manageable, numbered packets.
What is TCP(Transmission Control Protocol)?
Demands that users and developers hold themselves to a higher standard. Refers to the principles, values, standards, and practices that guide individuals and groups in doing what is right. Involves moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
What is Ethical Computing?