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WGU C173 Version 3 Language Agnostic
- input: A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard, touchscreen, network,
etc.
2. process: A program performs computations on that data, such as adding two
values like x + y.
- Output: A program puts that data somewhere, such as to a file, screen, network,
etc.
- variable: Used by programs to refer to data. It is a named item, used to hold a
value.
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5. flowchart: A graphical language for creating computer programs.
6. Program: A list of statements, each statement carrying out some action and
executing one at a time.
7. Run, execute: Words for carrying out a program's statements.
8. String literal: Text (characters) within double quotes.
9. Characters: Any letter (a-z, A-Z), digit (0-9), or symbol (~, !, @, etc.).
10. newline: Special two-character sequence \n whose appearance in an output
string literal causes the cursor to move to the next output line.
11. comment: Text a programmer adds to a program, to be read by humans (other
programmers), but ignored by the program when executing.
- Moore's Law: Engineers have reduced switch sizes by half about every 2 years.
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