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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 live
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WGU C173 Ultimate Study Guide Latest
2022 Already Passed
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 by adding 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.
= ✔✔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.
():
✔✔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 software or an application into smaller modules. This provides
prewritten code which saves resources and provides greater manageability.
comparison operator ✔✔Used to make a comparison between two values.
compiler ✔✔A program that takes source code and converts it to machine code by producing a
separate file.
concatenate ✔✔To connect or link in a series or chai
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