Coding

If I say the word "Algorithm" I am talking about what?

• When we all go to a store called Rithim.

• Algae that can DANCE!!!

• A new dance move.

• A list of steps you follow to finish a task.

In coding an event is what?

• An action that causes something to happen.

• An item on your calendar.

• A way to move air.

• A device that blows air into your computer.

Problems or mistakes in the code for an algorithm or program are known as:

• Bugs

• Slugs

• Tugs

• Rugs

Code is...

• when it's not warm.

• the dog from Garfield.

• a song or poem dedicated to someone.

• specific instructions in a computer program.

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A computer program is

• a show on TV.

• an algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.

• a professional graham cracker.

• part of a S'more.

When you tell the computer to repeat a command or step over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and... oh yeah, over again as many times as you tell to repeat.

• Deja Vu

• Loop

• Repeating

• Being annoying

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

• command

• computer science

• code

• program

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A user does this to tell the computer start the commands you have written into the program.

• event

• run program

• function

• abstraction

Trying again and again, even when something is very hard.

• command

• iteration (persisting)

• program

• code

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Finding and fixing errors in a program.

• debugging

• decompose

• digital footprint

• variables