KS3 Computing

CS07: design and develop modular programs that use procedures or functions

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Computer Science
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algorithmstep by step instructions to solve a problem
functiona section of code that has been given a name which can be used more than once in a program in order to calculate and return a value.
identifierthe name of a function or procedure that describes what it does
modulara type of program that has been split up into reusable parts, called procedures and functions
naming conventionthe set of rules a programmer should follow when choosing variable names
procedurea section of code that has been given a name which can be used more than once in a program in order to do something useful.
programlines of program code which follow an algorithm in a way can be run
return valuedata that gets sent back from a function to the part of the code that called it
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