Code.org Unit 5 Vocab Quiz 1

The visual elements of a program through which a user controls or communicates with the application. Often abbreviated UI.

• Callback Function

• User Interface

• Debugging

• Event Handler

A function specified as part of an event listener; it is written by the programmer but called by the system as the result of an event trigger.

• UI

• Event Handler

• Callback Function

• Turtle

A program designed to run blocks of code or functions in response to specified events (e.g. a mouse click)

• Event-driven Program

• Event Handler

• Beaver Programming

• Event Listener

An action that causes something to happen.

• Debugger

• Data Type

• Variable

• Event

All values in a programming language have a "type" - such as a Number, Boolean, or String - that dictates how the computer will interpret it.

• Data Type

• Variable

• Operation

• Bug

Any valid unit of code that resolves to a value.

• Variable

• Expression

• Data

• Code

The common programming structure that implements "conditional statements".

• "Maybe" Statement

• "When" Statement

• "If" Statement

• "Could" Statement

Dictates what portions of the code can "see" or use a variable, typically derived from where the variable was first created.

• Variable Room

• Variable Travel

• Variable Space

• Variable Scope

A variable whose scope is "global" to the program, it can be used and updated by any part of the code. Its global scope is typically derived from the variable being declared (created) outside of any function, object, or method.

• Global Variable

• Local Variable

• Wide Variable

• Limited Variable

A variable with local scope is one that can only be seen, used and updated by code within the same scope. Typically this means the variable was declared (created) inside a function -- includes function parameter variables.

• Short Variable

• Small Variable

• Global Variable

• Local Variable