Chapter 1 - Glossary

Question 1

Problem solving

Answer 1

The process of formulating a problem , finding a solution, and expressing it

Question 2

High-level language

Answer 2

A high-level language is any programming language that enables the development of a program in a much more user-friendly programming context and is generally independent of the computer’s hardware architecture

Question 3

Low-level language

Answer 3

A programming language that is designed to be easy for a computer to run; also
called “machine language” or “assembly language”

Question 4

Portability

Answer 4

A property of a program that can run on more than one kind of computer Maria download similarly

Question 5

Interpreter

Answer 5

an interpreter is a computer program that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language,

Question 6

Program

Answer 6

A set of instructions that specifies a computation

Question 7

Value

Answer 7

One of the basic units data like a number or stricter program manipulates

Question 8

Type

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A category of values. The types we have seen so far are integers (type int),
floating-point numbers (type float), and strings (type str).

Question 9

Integer

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A type that represents whole numbers

Question 10

String

Answer 10

A type that represents sequence of characters

Question 11

Natural language

Answer 11

Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally

Question 12

Formal languages any one of the languages that people have designed for specific purposes such as representing mathematical ideas or computer programs all programming languages are formal languages

Answer 12

Any one of the languages that people have designed for specific purposes such as representing mathematical ideas or computer programs all programming languages are formal languages

Question 13

token

Answer 13

One of the basic elements of the syntactical structure of a program analogus to a word in natural language

Question 14

Parse

Answer 14

To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure

Question 15

Bug

Answer 15

Error in program

Question 16

debugging

Answer 16

The process of finding and correcting bugs.

Question 17

You can use a minus sign to make a negative number like -2. What happens if
you put a plus sign before a number? What about 2++2?

Answer 17

it prints sum of x & y
x ,y = 4,9
print(x++y)
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Question 18

In math notation, leading zeros are okay, as in 02. What happens if you try this in
Python?

Answer 18

Interpreter Gives Syntax Error