Word Banks

• High Performance Computing - Applications that aim to solve complex computational problems
• Java Virtual Machine - Software that executes Java codes
• Multithreading - Allows a program to execute many tasks at the same time
• new - is a keyword in java that creates an object from the specified class
• access modifiers - are used by class, method, and class variable to define how they will be accessed by other objects and other methods
• public - an access modifier that indicates a class, method, or class variable can be accessed by any object or method directly
• return type - the type of data echoed by a method. Using void returns nothing.
• arguments - Are values passed as a parameter to methods
• IDE - an acronym for integrated development environment. It is used to create programs with ease
• ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• Casting - process of converting a value to the type of a variable
• Concatenation - process of joining values together
• Constant - Identifier whose value can never be changed once initialized
• Identifier - User-defined name for methods, classes, objects, variables, an labels
• Java Keyword - Word use by the Java complier for a specific purpose
• Literals - Values assigned to variables or constants
• Unicode - Universal Code that has a unique number to represent each character
• Variable - Identifier whose value can be changed
• Boolean Expressions - Expressions that evaluates to a truth value
• Expression - Composed of variables, operators, and method calls that result in a single value
• Shorthand operator - A combination of operators; used to minimize retyping of variable names
• Truth Table - shows a summary of how a specific operation is evaluated
• Truth Value -Either true or false
• Garbage Collection - Memory management done by Java
• Infinite Loop - Loop that will not end possible because the conditions that should be satisfied to execute the loop will always return true
• Block - a group of codes within the same scope (within the same open and close braces)
• Wrapper Class - converts primitive data type into an object, allowing further manipulations on the data stored
• Constructor - A method called when you create a new object; has the same name as the class
• Inheritance - process of acquiring the characteristics of a class
• Interface - class with no implementation
• Method Overloading - Methods have the same name but with different argument lists or parameters
• Overriding - Method of a subclass that has the same method signature as a method in the superclass
• Subclass - child class that inherit characteristics from their parent class
• Superclass - Parent class whose characteristics are inherited by other classes
• Frame - window with resizable borders; has a title
• Panel - Rectangular area that cannot stand alone; has to be placed in another container such as a frame or web browser window