Notepade Definitions
Notepade Definitions
>Instructions
A instruction is something that tells the computer to do something.
Instructions are used to solve problems within the computer.
>Program
A program is seqence of instructions to perform a specific task.
thire are different stages involved in developing a program and they are:
>writing algorithem.
>drawing flowchart.
>coding.
>execution.
>Algorithem
Writing an algorithem is the first stage of progam development.An algorithem is
a procedure or formula for solving a program.An algorithem can be defined as step
by step instruction in a computer program,which will give you the answer for a
particular kind of problem.
>Flowchart
Flowchar is a common type of diagram,that represent an algorithem or process,
using various kinds of shapes and their order by connecting them with arrows.
Flowchart are used for analyzing,desining,documenting or maneging a procces or
program.Simply we can say that it is the pictorial or graphical representation of a
program.
>Features of an algorithem
.All algorithems start with start and end with stop.
.Algorithems should be in a step by step manner.
.Each step should be clear.
.It should provide some means to meet some unexpeted situation.
>Characteristics of an algorithem
.Input
.Effectiveness
.Finiteness
.Definitness
.Output
>Python
python is a high level,general purpose programing language created by Guido Van
Rossum.
It was publicaly relesed on 1991.
>Features of python
.Python is easy to learn.
.Python is portable\platform independent.
.Python is an interpreted language.
.Python provides interfaces to all major commercial databases.
.Python is object oriented.
>IDEL
IDEL stands for intergrated development environment.It lets edit,run,browse and
debug python program from a single interface.This environment makes it easy to
write programs.
We can use python inerpreters in two modes:
.Interactive mode
.Script mode
Python is case sensitive.That means 'a' and 'A' are different in python.
>Keywords
Keywords are words which have fixed meaning and these meanings cannot be changed.
It is also known as reserved words.In python,keywords are case sensitive.
>Identifiers(variable names)
The identifiers are user defined names.A valied identifier is a sequence of one or
more
letters,digits or underscore characters(_).Neither spaces nor punctuation marks or
symbols can
be part of an identifier.
>Escape sequence
Escape sequence are set of special charecters used to print charecters which can't
be typed
using the keywors.Each escape sequence start with a backslash(\) charecter.
Some escape sequence are are \n,\t,\\,\a,\',\".