SOLUTIONS MANUAL FOR FUNDAMENTALS OF PYTHON FIRST PROGRAMS
3RD EDITION BY KENNETH LAMBERT (, 100% ORIGINAL VERIFIED, A+
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responsibility-driven design - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The assignment of roles and
responsibilities to different actors in a program.
recursive design - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The process of decomposing a problem into
subproblems of exactly the same form that can be solved by the same algorithm.
recursive function - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A function that calls itself.
base case - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The condition in a recursive algorithm that is tested to halt
the recursive process.
recursive step - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A step in the recursive process that solves a similar
problem of smaller size and eventually leads to a termination of the process.
recursive call - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The call of a function that already has a call waiting in the
current chain of function calls.
recursive definition - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A set of statements in which at least one statement
is defined in terms of itself.
indirect recursion - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A recursive process that results when one function
calls another, which results at some point in a second call to the first function.
infinite recursion - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..In a running program, the state that occurs when a
recursive method cannot reach a stopping state.
call stack - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The area of computer memory reserved for managing data
associated with function and method calls.
stack frame - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..An area of computer memory that keeps track of a function
or method call's parameters, local values, return value, and the caller's return address.
namespace - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The set of all of a program's variables and their values.
scope - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The area of program text in which the value of a variable is
visible.
lifetime - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The time during which a data object or method call exists.
, default arguments - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A special type of argument that is automatically
provided if the caller does not supply one.
abstraction - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..a mechanism to simplify or hide complexity
summation - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..returns the sum of the numbers within a given range of
numbers
code redundancy - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..
general method - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A method that solves a class of problems, not just one
individual problem.
problem instance - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..An individual problem that belongs to a class of
problems.
top-down design - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A method for coding by which the programmer starts
with a top-level task and implements subtasks. Each subtask is then subdivided into
smaller subtasks. This process is repeated until each remaining subtask is easily coded
stepwise refinement - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The process of repeatedly subdividing tasks into
subtasks until each subtask is easily accomplished.
abacus - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..An early computing device that allowed users to perform simple
calculations by moving beads along wires.
absolute pathname - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A pathname that begins with the file system's root
directory. See also pathname.
abstract behavior - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Operations that multiple classes have in common.
abstraction - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A simplified view of a task or data structure that ignores
complex detail.
accessor - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A method used to examine an attribute of an object without
changing it.
accessor method - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A method used to examine an attribute of an object
without changing it.
algorithm - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A finite sequence of instructions that, when applied to a
problem, will solve it.
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