Computer Science Vocabulary

Computer Science

• Getting help from a large group of people to finish something faster.

• Information. Often, quantities, characters, or symbols that are the inputs and outputs of computer programs.

• Using the power of computers to solve problems.

Command

• A connection that uses light to transmit information.

• An instruction for the computer.

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

Algorithm

• The most common fundamental unit of digital data .

• Getting help from a large group of people to finish something faster.

• A list of steps to finish a task.

Function

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

• A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.

• Short for "picture element", the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot that contains a single point of color of a larger image.

Code

• Statements that only run under certain conditions.

• The language that programmers create and use to tell a computer what to do.

• Break a problem down into smaller pieces.

Loop

• A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.

• Able to be relied on as honest or truthful.

• The action of doing something over and over again.

Binary Code

• Break a problem down into smaller pieces.

• A way of representing information using only two options.

• Doing something on the internet, usually again and again, to make another personal feel angry, sad, or scared.

Parameters

• Click your mouse button and hold as you move the mouse pointer to a new location.

• An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need.

• Information. Often, quantities, characters, or symbols that are the inputs and outputs of computer programs.

Pattern

• An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need.

• Computers that exist only to provide things to others.

• Finding similarities between things.

Conditionals

• Using the power of computers to solve problems

• Press the mouse button.

• Statements that only run under certain conditions.