Intro to Comp Sci U1: L 1

In computers a program is .........

• Something you watch on TV.
• The name of the computer.
• What shows on the computer screen when you are running it.
• A set of instructions that can be followed by a computer.

In computers decomposition is 

• when one breaks something into smaller pieces or its parts.
• when the computer falls apart because you used it so much.
• when a dead animal in your computer begins to get smelly.
• a set of directions to do something.
  a set of directions to help you solve a problem.

In computers abstraction is 

• when one makes beautiful pictures of fruit and things.
• when one removes the details from a solution so that it can work for many problems.  
  
• when you include very single detail.
• when you solve a problem by looking at all its details.

Computational thinking is 

• when you have a machine transplanted inside your head so you are now a computer.
• a method of problem-solving that helps computer scientists get problems ready to be solved by computer.
• when you are thinking about math all the time.
• when all you think about is your computer.

Image is

• when you are thinking about something that might happen.
• another word for thought.
• something to do with farm animals.
• another word for picture.

Pegman is 

• a character in a really funny movie.
• another name for a computer programmer. 
• a villian that the Avengers battle in the new movie.
• a character used in Google Maps to mark a location.

Data is 

• a droid in the new star wars movie.
• information or facts.
• the answer we get when we ask a computer questions.
• only important in science not computers.

A pattern is 

• something unique that there is only one of.  
• when you get the answer to a problem quickly. 
• somethng that is very hard to find. 
• a theme that is repeated many times.

An algorithm is 

• something used only in cooking.  
• a list of steps that allow you to complete a task.
• how you write the answer to a problem. 
• one step out of a list of directions. 

A visualization is 

• a picture that describes something.
• what you get when you have blobs of many different colors in a painting.  
• when you use words to describe something.  
• a story that tells all about something.