Programming Glossary Keywords/Terms

The following are the keywords and glossary items I think you should of come across in the python book. Make sure you at least have definitions/explanations for these. If you have extra ones that's ok.

I've organised this by chapters

Chapter One

• Depreciated
• Console Window
• Platform independant
• Function
• Argument
• Case-sensitive
• String
• Statement
• Comments

Chapter Two

• List of Arguments
• Escape Sequence
• Concatenating strings
• Line continuation character
• Numeric Types (specify Integer, Float, Decimal)
• Mathematical operators (state the main ones from the book on page 29 given their purpose)
• Variable
• Legal variable name
• Assignment statement
• Self documenting code
• Return value
• String methods (state the purpose of the following ones -upper, lower, replace, strip [also known as trim in other languages])
• Logical error
• operator overloading
• Augmented Assignment operator (use the table on page 44 - most languages use something similar)

Chapter Three

• Sequential flow (Sequence)
• Import
• Module
• dot notation
• Branching
• Cryptography
• Conditions
• Comparison operators (cover those in table on page 56)
• Block
• If statement
• Else clause
• Else If (Elif as python calls it)
• While Loop
• sentry variable
• Initialisation
• Infinite loop (what causes one and how to create an intentional one)
• Tracing
• compound conditions
• logical operators (not, and, or)
• Algorithm
• Pseudo code
• Stepwise refinement

Chapter Four

• For loop
• element
• sequence (in python)
• iterate
• len() function
• sequential access
• random access
• indexing
• index out of range
• mutable and immutable
• constant
• lower()  and upper() functions
• slicing