WGU Scripting and Programming Foundations C173

What is an editor? - -A program that allows you to write code What is a compiler? - -A program that produces other programs. The compiler does all the work at once and then runs the new program. We're translating the code we wrote to computer code all at once. This is often when we produce an .exe (executable) file. What is an interpreter? - -A program that runs code one line at a time. Instead of converting all of the code at once it runs each line as it's needed. It interprets that spec...

Program - -A sequence of statements. Each statement describes an action. Each statement executes one at a time. Input - -A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard, touchscreen, network, etc. Process - -A program performs computations on that data, such as adding two values like x + y. Output - -A program puts that data somewhere, such as to a file, screen, network, etc. Variable - -A name that can hold a value. A variable might be named x. Then, x = 7 assigns x with 7, which remai...