Coding Vocab Basics

Coding Vocab Basics

STEM with Miss Hanft

Multiple Choice

What word means the following: a list of steps or instructions written in human language that tells a person how they have to complete some kind of task.

• algorithm

• code

• program

• loop

Multiple Choice

What word means the following: A SET OF INSTRUCTIONS that has been taken from human language and put into a COMPUTER'S language so the computer can understand.

• algorithm

• code

• program

• loop

Multiple Choice

What word means the following: How people communicate with computers

• algorithm

• code

• program

• loop

Multiple Choice

What word means the following: A pattern in coding that is repeated. Instead of adding the pattern over and over again, you can make one loop with the pattern and keep adding the loop.

• algorithm

• code

• sequence

• loop

Multiple Choice

What word means the following: The specific order of something. Sometimes, things have to happen in a certain order for the end result to work

• conditionals

• code

• sequence

• decomposing

Sequencing

• The order of how something happens is important

• For example: refill your water bottle, you HAVE TO do it in these steps… 1 take the lid off of the bottle, 2 put the water in the bottle, 3 put the lid back on the water bottle.

Multiple Choice

What word means the following: Cause and effect relationships in coding. If one thing happens, then something else happens. If you type the wrong password in, then the CB won’t let you log in.

• conditionals

• code

• sequence

• loop

Conditionals

• think about Cause and Effect from your ELA lessons before

• If one thing happens, something else happens

• Another example: IF a car with automatic brakes senses the car is going too fast towards an object and the person driving is not slowing down, THEN the car will automatically stop based on how the car is programmed

Multiple Choice

What word means the following: Breaking something large into a few smaller parts. This makes it easier to understand or figure out if you look at it in smaller pieces.

• conditionals

• code

• sequence

• decomposing