Glossary terms from module 1

Terms and definitions from Course 7, Module 1 
 Automation: The use of technology to reduce human and manual effort to perform common and repetitive tasks 
 Boolean data: Data that can only be one of two values: either True or False 
 Command-line interface: A text-based user interface that uses commands to interact with the computer 
 Comment: A note programmers make about the intention behind their code 
 Conditional statement: A statement that evaluates code to determine if it meets a specified set of conditions 
 Data type: A category for a particular type of data item 
 Dictionary data: Data that consists of one or more key-value pairs 
 Float data: Data consisting of a number with a decimal point 
 Integer data: Data consisting of a number that does not include a decimal point 
 Integrated development environment (IDE): A software application for writing code that provides editing assistance and error correction tools 
 Interpreter: A computer program that translates Python code into runnable instructions line by line   
 Iterative statement: Code that repeatedly executes a set of instructions 
 List data: Data structure that consists of a collection of data in sequential form 
 Loop variable: A variable that is used to control the iterations of a loop 
 Notebook: An online interface for writing, storing, and running code  
 Programming: A process that can be used to create a specific set of instructions for a computer to execute tasks 
 Set data: Data that consists of an unordered collection of unique values 
 String data: Data consisting of an ordered sequence of characters 
 Syntax: The rules that determine what is correctly structured in a computing language 
 Tuple data: Data structure that consists of a collection of data that cannot be changed  
 Type error: An error that results from using the wrong data type 
 Variable: A container that stores data