Vocabulary Terms

Bug

Part of a program that does not work correctly.

Case sensitivity

In programming, identifiers must use specific upper and lowercase characters

Identifier

In programming, this is the name given to a variable, method, class or other user-nameable segment of code

Java class

a section of a program that describes an object

Java comment

Text written to anyone reading source code, identified using special characters

Java method

A group of one or more statements used to execute something inside of a class

Main method

The method of a class used as the entry point for a Java program

Multiline comment

Everything between /* and */ within a Java source code file

Program statement

A part of a program that executes a single action.

Reserved word

A word that has a special meaning to the programming language

Single line comment

Everything after two forward slashes // in a line of code

Statement block

A set of program statements that execute one after the other.

Statement terminator

A special character indicating the end of a program statement

String literal

A series of characters between quotation marks, written directly into code

Syntax

The vocabulary and grammar of a language, programming or otherwise.

Syntax error

A problem with the vocabulary or grammar of a program.

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