Coding/Programming

What is programming?

• Creating a calendar of events.
• Writing instructions for a digital tool
• A list of activities like clubs and special events at a school.
• Finding & fixing problems in an algorithm or program.

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

• Variable
• Editor
• Item
• Information item

In coding terms, the action of doing something over and over again.

• Repeating
• Repetition
• Loop
• Do-over

Finding and fixing errors in programs

• Defining
• Decompose
• Debugging
• Fixing

Statements that only run under certain conditions or situations.

• Conditionals
• Run Statements
• Digital Statements
• Command

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

• Coding
• Computer Science
• Computer Applications
• Keyboarding

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

A list of steps to finish a task. A set of instructions that can be performed with or without a computer. 

• Algorithm
• Plan
• Binary
• Logorithm

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

• Repeat
• Functions
• Procedures
• Fractions