How To Think Like a Computer Scientist C++ Edition The Pretext Interactive Version

Glossary Glossary

object.

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A collection of related data that comes with a set of functions that operate on it. The objects we have used so far are the cout object provided by the system, and strings.

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index.

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A variable or value used to select one of the members of an ordered set, like a character from a string.

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traverse.

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To iterate through all the elements of a set performing a similar operation on each.

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counter.

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A variable used to count something, usually initialized to zero and then incremented.

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increment.

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Increase the value of a variable by one. The increment operator in C++ is ++. In fact, that’s why C++ is called C++, because it is meant to be one better than C.

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decrement.

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Decrease the value of a variable by one. The decrement operator in C++ is –.

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concatenate.

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To join two operands end-to-end.

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