Glossary for python

Python Programming

Problem-solving:
The process of formulating a problem, finding a solution, and expressing it.
High-level language:
A programming language like Python that is designed to be easy for humans to read
and write.
Low-level language:
A programming language that is designed to be easy for a computer to run; also
called “machine language” or “assembly language”.
Portability:
A property of a program that can run on more than one kind of computer.
Interpreter:
A program that reads another program and executes it.
Prompt:
Characters displayed by the interpreter to indicate that it is ready to take input from
the user.
Program:
A set of instructions that specifies a computation.
Print statement:
An instruction that causes the Python interpreter to display a value on the screen.
Operator:
A special symbol that represents a simple computation like addition, multiplication,
or string concatenation.
Value:
One of the basic units of data, like a number or string, that a program manipulates.
Type:
A category of values. The types we have seen so far are integers (type int), floating-point
numbers (type float), and strings (type str).
Integer:
A type that represents whole numbers.
Floating-point:
A type that represents numbers with fractional parts.
String:
A type that represents sequences of characters.
Natural language:
Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally.
Formal language:
Any one of the languages that people have designed for specific purposes, such as
representing mathematical ideas or computer programs; all programming languages
are formal languages.
Token:
One of the basic elements of the syntactic structure of a program, analogous to a
word in a natural language.
Syntax:
The rules that govern the structure of a program.
Parse:
To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure.
Bug:
An error in a program.
Debugging:
The process of finding and correcting bugs.