C173 Ultimate Study Guide Questions and answers, rated A+

C173 Ultimate Study Guide Questions and answers, rated A+ abstraction - -Focus on the essential qualities of something rather than one specific example. actors - -An Actor in a use case is anything with behavior who lives outside of your system, outside of your application, but has a goal they want to accomplish within. algorithm - -A set of commands that return a value. This differs from a procedure, which is a set of commands that doesn't necessarily have to return a value. append() - -Mutates List by adding Element to the end of the list. argument - -The inputs to a procedure. Also called operands. attributes - -Characteristics of an object which may be used to reference other objects or save object state information. name = expression - -This is an assignment statement. A variable is named and also assigned a value or expression. If multiple values are assigned to the same named variable, the last assignment is the one used. base case - -An expression that has a value and is not defined in terms of some other thing we are defining. This breaks the chain of recursion. Boolean - -A value that is either True or False circular definition - -A definition that doesn't give us answers because it never finishes. It is stuck in a loop with each reference pointing to another reference. It has no base case. class - -Describes what an object will be, but it isn't the object itself. This is a blueprint for that object. ClassName (BaseClass): Block - -How to define a class in Python class diagram (UML) - -The most common diagram in Object-Oriented Design. Shows the system classes and relationships between them. Diagrams the primary attributes and primary operations for each class. code modularity - -Dividing