Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
terminate
- When a program ends. "Exit" means the same thing.
tracing
- To follow through the lines of code in a program in the order that they would
execute.
truth tables
- Tables showing every possible combination of
tuple
- A container data type similar to a list. Tuples are immutable sequence data types,
meaning that they cannot have values added or removed from them. For example,
(1, 2,
'cats', 'hello')
is a tuple of four values.
type
- see, data types
unordered
- In container data types, unordered data types do not have a "first" or "last"
value contained inside them, they simply contain values. Dictionaries are the only
unordered data type in Python. Lists, tuples, and strings are ordered data types. See also,
sequence.
user
- The person using the program.
value
- A specific instance of a data type.
42
is a value of the integer type.
'Hello'
is
a value of the string type.
variables
- A container that can store a value. List variables contain references to lists.
while loop statement
- The
while
keyword, followed by a condition, ending with a :
colon character. The
while
statement marks the beginning of a
while
loop.
X-axis
- In cartesian coordinate systems, the horizontal (left-right) coordinate axis.
Y-axis
- In cartesian coordinate systems, the vertical (up-down) coordinate axis.