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AP Computer Science Principles›Unit 3: Algorithms and Programming›Algorithms and Programming

Procedures and Libraries

Procedures with parameters manage complexity; libraries and APIs let programs reuse others' code.

Parameters and return values
Procedural abstraction
APIs and libraries

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3Algorithms and Programming

Variables, Lists, and Procedures
Expressions, Strings, and Data Abstraction
Conditionals, Iteration, and Boolean Logic
Developing Algorithms and Binary Search
Procedures and Libraries
Simulations and Random Values
Algorithm Efficiency and Undecidable Problems

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Also called: procedures, procedural abstraction