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AP Computer Science Principles Flashcards: Developing Procedures

Study Developing Procedures in AP Computer Science Principles with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

What is an argument in procedures?

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Value passed to a procedure's parameter. The actual data passed to parameters when calling.

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Based on the scenario, a student writes a procedure to find the maximum value in a non-empty list of integers. Input: list nums (length 1 to 50,000). Output: the largest integer in the list. Constraint: must work for negative numbers. 
PROCEDURE maxValue(nums)
  max ← 0
  FOR EACH n IN nums
    IF n > max
      max ← n
    ENDIF
  ENDFOR
  RETURN max
ENDPROCEDURE
Which step is necessary to ensure the procedure works correctly for all valid inputs?
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