Key Terms — Code Efficiency, Readability, & Benchmarking

Course 3: Introduction to Programming / Unit 9: Code Efficiency, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence / Lesson 2: Code Efficiency, Readability, & Benchmarking

Vocabulary focus

Code Efficiency, Readability, Benchmarking, Execution Time, Optimization, Time Complexity, Memory Footprint, Profiling, Refactoring, Performance

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Unit-level context for this lesson · Course 110201

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#12 Explain how algorithms are used to produce artificial intelligence (AI).
#13 Evaluate and critique the effectiveness and efficiency of code written.

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