Harvard CS50 Edx

"for"

Preposition for a loop

Program

A bunch of 0's and 1's that represent a bunch of algorithm

API

Application Programming Interface = You can program things to do your bidding

Multithreaded

Can do multiple things at once

Sprites

Characters in a program

Source code

Code that is written in a coding language such as C or C++

Loop

Doing the same thing again and again

Pseudocode

Generic way of describing an algorithm or a computer program by using the familiar english language (not C or C++ language)

Statement

Instructions you feed to the computer

Main function

Kickstarts the entire program

bits

Means binary digit

Boolean expressions

Some form of question that can only be answered with True or False

Unicode

Standard like ASCII, but it incorporates letters and signs from different languages

ASCII

Standard that maps numbers to letters of the alphabet

Condition

The branch of code. "if and then". "Should I do something or not"

Binary

The only alphabet the computer can understand: 0, 1

Alogorithm

The set of instructions with which we're solving actual problems