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Essential Terms: interactive pages for C01-C10 One mechanism in the shared port script builds all ten glossaries from CXX-2026/CXX-essential-terms.md. Obsidian's [!note]- callouts do not render in OtterWiki, so every page is rebuilt to the C02 click-to-reveal shape (>| ### Term / >| definition): C01 and C03-C08 are new, C09 converts from the non-rendering form, C02 and C10 are regenerated. 258 terms, definitions verbatim from source, sorted into the groups named by each source's own Topics list; the port asserts the grouping covers every term exactly once. Each page opens with a compact vocabulary map and closes on a See also. Seven criterion home pages gain a Foundations link. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RxqgYbTNNYrPNuko6xfbKs
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# Essential Terms — C07
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The Hamilton and Alexandra College · Year 12 · 2026
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A glossary of every term you need to recognise and use correctly across C07. Click a term to expand its definition. All three C07 indicators are assessed live in Part B of the Live Coding Validation, without notes, so this vocabulary has to be in your head.
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```mermaid
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flowchart TD
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R["C07 vocabulary<br/>14 terms"]
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R --> G0["Naming conventions<br/>4 terms"]
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R --> G1["Internal documentation<br/>6 terms"]
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R --> G2["Validation techniques<br/>4 terms"]
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```
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*Where the C07 vocabulary sits, and how much of it is in each group — the 3 sections below follow the same order. Revise the heavy groups first.*
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---
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## Naming conventions
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>| ### Naming convention
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>| An agreed set of rules by which to name source code elements such as variables, functions, classes, methods and objects.
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>| ### Camel case
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>| A naming convention in programming where each word or abbreviation after the first in a phrase begins with a capital letter; there are no spaces or punctuation.
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>| ### Snake case
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>| A naming convention in programming where each word or abbreviation in the middle of a phrase is joined using an underscore.
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>| ### Hungarian notation
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>| A naming convention in computer programming where the name of the variable or function determines its purpose and its data type or structure.
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## Internal documentation
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>| ### Internal documentation
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>| Notes and code comments contained within source code that describe the code.
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>| ### Header comment
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>| A set of meaningful comments at the top of a source code file, outlining information such as the name of the file, its purpose, the author's name and the date of creation.
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>| ### Readability
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>| The ease with which text (including code) can be read and understood.
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>| ### Clear and concise code
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>| Code that is written in a straightforward and easily understandable manner, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
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>| ### Hard-coding
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>| Including fixed data directly in a program's source code, so that it cannot be changed at runtime and can only be updated by editing and re-running the program.
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>| ### Magic number
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>| A hardcoded numeric (or string) literal whose meaning isn't clear from context, and which should usually be replaced with a named constant (e.g. `18200` instead of `TAX_FREE_THRESHOLD`).
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## Validation techniques
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>| ### Validation
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>| Checks the reasonableness of data inputs.
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>| ### Existence check
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>| A test to see if a value has been entered as input or not.
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>| ### Range check
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>| Tests to see if a value is within a given range of acceptable values.
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>| ### Type check
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>| Tests to see if a value is of the specified data type or structure.
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## See also
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- [C07 home page](/sd/C07/C07-home) — everything else for this criterion