Portfolio Reflection Questions

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5.11 Unit Wrap-Up Curriculum Page

WORD RANKING: How familiar are you with these words? Enter a ✔ into the applicable cell for each vocabulary word and then answer the questions.

Vocabulary Word	Can define	Recognize, but can’t define	Need more practice with
procedural abstraction
parameters
arguments
efficiency
linear or sequential search
binary search
sorting algorithm
reasonable time
unreasonable time
brute force
decidable problems
intractable problems
heuristic algorithm
The Halting Problem
The Traveling Salesman Problem
undecidable problems
optimization problem
decision problem
sequential computing
parallel computing
distributed computing
speedup

1. Which vocabulary words in this unit are not familiar at all?

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2. Which vocabulary words in this unit are sort of familiar?

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3. Which vocabulary words in this unit are really familiar?

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