Computer Science Principles

A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again. 

• Repeat
• Functions
• Procedures
• Fractions

A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.  This is also a term in math.

• variable
• Editor
• Item
• Information item

You click this button to have the computer execute the commands you've written in your program. 

• Go
• Execute
• Start
• Run Program

An action that causes something to happen. 

• Event
• Actions
• Reaction
• Proceed

Quantities, characters, or symbols that are the inputs and outputs of computer programs.

• Text
• Outputs
• Inputs
• Data

Finding and fixing errors in programs

• Tech support
• Decompose
• Debugging
• Fixing

 A field or job in which people use the power of computers to solve big problems. 

• Coding
• Computer Science
• Computer Applications
• Keyboarding

An instruction for the computer. Many of these put together make up algorithms and computer programs. 

• Code
• Plan
• Program
• Command

One or more commands or algorithm(s) designed to tell the computer what to do. 

• Instructions
• Code
• Commands
• Algorithms

An error in a program that prevents the program from running as expected.

• Error report
• Bug
• Mistake
• Algorithm