AP CSP | Conditionals Review

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A program is:

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a series of steps to complete a task that a computer can understand.

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Coding is:

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the action of writing instructions for a computer in a language that it can understand.

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What is syntax?

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a set of rules for how a language is written.

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Control flow statements:

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pieces of code that direct the program to run in different ways depending on what else is happening, determine which code is being carried out at a given time, give the program the flexibility to go down more than one path.

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Pieces of code that only run "under certain conditions":

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conditional statements

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What is a condition?

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Something that has to be true in order for an action to be carried out.

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This is a catch-all for every other situation besides the one where the condition is true. Options: then, do, else, if

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else

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What is/are true about pseudocode?

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somewhere between English and a coding language, more precise than English but less precise than a coding language, used by programmers to figure out the logic and flow of their programs without having to worry about syntax.

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A variable is...

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a placeholder for a piece of information that can change, like a bucket for holding information, and can be written as letters or with longer words.

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Which symbol means "not equal to"?

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!=