WGU - Scripting and Programming
Foundations well answered graded A+
Program - ANS ✔✔Consists of instructions executing one at a time.
Input - ANS ✔✔A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard, touchscreen, network, etc.
Process - ANS ✔✔A programs performs computations on that data, such as adding two values
like x + y.
Output - ANS ✔✔A programs puts that data somewhere, such as to a file, screen, network, etc.
Computational thinking - ANS ✔✔Creating a sequence of instructions to solve a problem.
Algorithm - ANS ✔✔A sequence of instructions that solves a problem.
Statement - ANS ✔✔Carries out some action and executing one at a time.
String literal - ANS ✔✔Consists of text (characters) within double quotes, as in "Go #57!".
Cursor - ANS ✔✔Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the output.
Newline - ANS ✔✔A special two-character sequence \n whose appearance in an output string
literal causes the cursor to move to the next output line. The newline exists invisibly in the
output.
, Comment - ANS ✔✔Text added to a program, read by humans to understand the code, but
ignored by the program when executed.
Whitespace - ANS ✔✔Refers to blank spaces (space and tab characters) between items within a
statement, and to newlines. Whitespace helps improve readability for humans, but for
execution purposes is mostly ignored.
Pseudocode - ANS ✔✔Text that resembles a program in a real programming language but is
simplified to aid human understanding.
Assignment statement - ANS ✔✔Assigns a variable with a value, such as x = 5. An assignment
statement's left side must be a variable. The right side is an expression.Examples: x = 5, y = a, or
z = w + 2.
= - ANS ✔✔In programming, = is an assignment of a left-side variable with a right-side value. It
does not represent equality like in mathematics.
Variable declaration - ANS ✔✔Declares a new variable, specifying the variable's name and type.
Identifier - ANS ✔✔A name created by a programmer for an item like a variable or function. An
identifier must: be a sequence of letters (a-z, A-Z), underscores (_), and digits (0-9), AND start
with a letter or underscore.
Reserved word or keyword - ANS ✔✔A word that is part of the language, like integer, Get, or
Put. A programmer cannot use a reserved word as an identifier.
Lower camel case - ANS ✔✔Abuts multiple words, capitalizing each word except the first, such
as numApples.
Foundations well answered graded A+
Program - ANS ✔✔Consists of instructions executing one at a time.
Input - ANS ✔✔A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard, touchscreen, network, etc.
Process - ANS ✔✔A programs performs computations on that data, such as adding two values
like x + y.
Output - ANS ✔✔A programs puts that data somewhere, such as to a file, screen, network, etc.
Computational thinking - ANS ✔✔Creating a sequence of instructions to solve a problem.
Algorithm - ANS ✔✔A sequence of instructions that solves a problem.
Statement - ANS ✔✔Carries out some action and executing one at a time.
String literal - ANS ✔✔Consists of text (characters) within double quotes, as in "Go #57!".
Cursor - ANS ✔✔Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the output.
Newline - ANS ✔✔A special two-character sequence \n whose appearance in an output string
literal causes the cursor to move to the next output line. The newline exists invisibly in the
output.
, Comment - ANS ✔✔Text added to a program, read by humans to understand the code, but
ignored by the program when executed.
Whitespace - ANS ✔✔Refers to blank spaces (space and tab characters) between items within a
statement, and to newlines. Whitespace helps improve readability for humans, but for
execution purposes is mostly ignored.
Pseudocode - ANS ✔✔Text that resembles a program in a real programming language but is
simplified to aid human understanding.
Assignment statement - ANS ✔✔Assigns a variable with a value, such as x = 5. An assignment
statement's left side must be a variable. The right side is an expression.Examples: x = 5, y = a, or
z = w + 2.
= - ANS ✔✔In programming, = is an assignment of a left-side variable with a right-side value. It
does not represent equality like in mathematics.
Variable declaration - ANS ✔✔Declares a new variable, specifying the variable's name and type.
Identifier - ANS ✔✔A name created by a programmer for an item like a variable or function. An
identifier must: be a sequence of letters (a-z, A-Z), underscores (_), and digits (0-9), AND start
with a letter or underscore.
Reserved word or keyword - ANS ✔✔A word that is part of the language, like integer, Get, or
Put. A programmer cannot use a reserved word as an identifier.
Lower camel case - ANS ✔✔Abuts multiple words, capitalizing each word except the first, such
as numApples.
