Unit 8 – Programming: JavaScript - CS++ | Computer Science Principles

Learning Objectives

After completing this unit students will be able to:

Explain the basic process by which code written by a human is converted into machine instructions that a computer can carry out
Explain the difference between high- and low-level programming languages
Define the term abstraction, especially as it relates to high-level programming languages, functions, and objects
Explain the difference between compiled and interpreted languages
Show their ability to find bugs in code
Use the software development cycle by designing, implementing, testing, and iteratively improving code
Write functioning code using logic and loops
Justify the use of functions and algorithms in relationship to abstraction
Create a program using code that solves a problem or need

AND – basic logic gate where every part of a statement must be true for the entire statement to be true
Binary Search – a searching algorithm, used on sorted lists, that divides the number of elements to search in half until it is down to one element
Constant – used in coding to store a value that cannot be changed
Debugging – finding errors in code
Design – Implement – Test – thethree steps of the iterative development process
Incremental – done in small chunks
Iterative – continuously repeating steps, achieved in programming by using loops
Linear Search – a searching algorithm that starts at the first index and checks each element of the list one by one until it finds the item it is searching for
OR – basic logic gate where any part of a statement can be true for the entire statement to be true
Recursion – a function that references itself and consists of two parts: a recursive call and a base call
Selection – the logic structure in programming that uses if statements to select certain values
Sequence – the structure that runs one line after anotherin order
Variable – used in coding to store a value that can change