Additional Programming Vocabulary Certification Terms

Abstraction - Simplifying a Program - eg. Functions!

Double Float:  Data types used to store numbers with decimal points.

Debugging - searching for errors in a program. 

Top Down Design: A problem-solving methodology that breaks a large, complex system into smaller, manageable, and functional sub-components.

Types of Errors:

• Syntax Error  (eg. typos when creating web pages - the program won't work.)
• Run Time Error  (eg. divide by zero, can't be done - computer can crash!)
• Logic Error (eg.  The program runs without crashing but produce incorrect results. The code is structurally correct but functionally wrong. These errors are hard to detect because they do not trigger error messages.