Coding Terms

Which word means pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems?

• bug

• increase

• Abstraction

An algorithm is a list of steps to finish a task. A set of instructions that can be performed with or without a computer. A good example of an algorithm is:

• A list of steps to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

• A math problem

• A five paragraph essay

A way of representing information using only two options.

• unidimensional

• Binary

• command

The visual programming language used in Code.org’s online learning system for K-5 students is?

• Spanish

• French

• Blockly

Bug

• A virus that is created by a scammer.

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

• A cold that makes you feel bad.

One or more commands or algorithm(s) designed to be carried out by a computer is called?

• Code

• Bug

• Setting

A command is an instruction for the computer. Many commands put together make up algorithms and computer programs.

• False

• True

Characteristics of computational thinking are decomposition, pattern matching, abstraction & algorithms.

• True

• False

Computer science is field in which people use the power of computers to solve small, insignificant problems.

• True

• False

Statements that only run under certain conditions or situations are called?

• situation ethics

• conditionals

• half truths