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Cards (7)

  • parameter: a variable in a function definition used as a placeholder for values that will be passed through a function
  • argument: the value passed to the parameter
  • return: used to return the flow of control to the point where the procedure (function) was called and to return the value of expression
  • procedural abstraction: a process that allows a procedure to be used only knowing what it does, not how it does it. Procedural abstraction allows a solution to a large problem to be based on the solution of smaller subproblems. This is accomplished by creating procedures to solve each of the subproblems.
  • Library: a group of functions (procedures) that may be used in creating new programs
  • API: Application Program Interface - specifications for how functions in a library behave and can be used
  • Modularity: the subdivision of a computer program into seperate subprograms