A unique interpreter environment that allows Python to be executed from within a web browser. Our textbook and our class site use activecode to make runnable Python.

A general step by step process for solving a problem.

An error in a program.

An intermediate language between source code and object code. Many modern languages first compile source code into byte code and then interpret the byte code with a program called a virtual machine.

An interactive environment that allows the user to control the step by step execution of a Python program

Information in a program that is meant for other programmers (or anyone reading the source code) and has no effect on the execution of the program. In Python, comments are written after #

To translate a program written in a high-level language into a low-level language all at once, in preparation for later execution.

The process of finding and removing any of the three kinds of programming errors. Read more about debugging in our textbook here

Another name for a runtime error.

Another name for object code that is ready to be executed.