AP Computer Science - Unit 1 - Vocabulary
| __ | 1. | CPU | | A. | Consists of the physical devices on your desktop | | __ | 2. | Hardware | | B. | High speed internal memory | | __ | 3. | JVM - Java Virtual Machine | | C. | consists of the programs that give the hardware functionalit | | __ | 4. | Program | | D. | supports communication between a user and the computer | | __ | 5. | RAM or Primary Memory | | E. | The part of the computer that does the work | | __ | 6. | Secondary Memory | | F. | The character encoding scheme used by JAVA | | __ | 7. | Software | | G. | Devices that save the information we work on like documents | | __ | 8. | System Software | | H. | Supports the human use of the computer | | __ | 9. | Unicode | | I. | Used to be able to run JAVA Byte code | | __ | 10. | User Interface | | J. | a sequence of instructions for a computer |
| __ | 11. | '+' - the plus symbol | | A. | Examples are Eclipse, Dr. Java, JBuilder | | __ | 12. | ()'s - Parenthesis | | B. | An expression that returns either true or false | | __ | 13. | Actual Parameters | | C. | consists of operands & operators combined for algebra | | __ | 14. | Arithmetic expression | | D. | String of chars inside the ()'s after a method call | | __ | 15. | Boolean | | E. | Used to change the order of operations when needed | | __ | 16. | Break Statement | | F. | Mistakes made by the compiler | | __ | 17. | Compile Time Errors | | G. | An item whose values do not change | | __ | 18. | For statement | | H. | Combines initialization, condition test, and cntr update | | __ | 19. | IDE | | I. | Used to concatenate strings together | | __ | 20. | Literal | | J. | Used to get out of a loop prematurely |
| __ | 21. | Casting | | A. | A technique to convert one type to another | | __ | 22. | Control or Conditional | | B. | an item whose value can change during execution | | __ | 23. | Count controlled Loop | | C. | Words that have a special meaning in JAVA | | __ | 24. | Extended assignment operators | | D. | A control variable is used to count the times through a loop | | __ | 25. | Infinite Loop | | E. | Examples are +=, -=, *= | | __ | 26. | Keywords | | F. | This error occurs when a loop goes one to many or few times | | __ | 27. | Logic Error | | G. | While and If-Else Statements are of this type | | __ | 28. | Off-by-One error | | H. | A loop that will repeat itself forever without program halt | | __ | 29. | Random Class | | I. | The class necessary to generate a number | | __ | 30. | Variable | | J. | Occurs when a programmer fails to program accurately |
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