Computer Science Concepts

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Scientific research conducted in whole or part by distributed individuals who contribute relevant data to research using their own computing devices

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Citizen science

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Data having values that change smoothly, rather than in discrete intervals, over time

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Analog data

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How well algorithms perform with increasingly larger data sets

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Scalability

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The process of uncovering patterns and other valuable information from large data sets

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Data mining

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An agreed-upon set of rules that specify the behavior of a system

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Protocol

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A type of number used in computer programming to represent real numbers with a high degree of precision

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Floating point

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A value passed to a function or procedure and received as a parameter

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Argument

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A determination of which parts of an algorithm to execute based on a condition being true or false

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Selection

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The application of each step of an algorithm in the order in which the code statements are given

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Sequencing

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A simple algorithm that sequentially checks each element in a list until it finds the target value or reaches the end of the list

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Linear search