Programming Vocabulary

Loop

• Loops that have a predetermined beginning, end, and increment (step interval).

• The action of doing something over and over again.

• A description of the behavior of a command, function, library, API, etc.

• To repeat in order to achieve, or get closer to, a desired goal.

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.

Order of events, commands carried by a computer exactly as they are written to run properly.

• Sequence
• Bugs
• Syntax
• Debugging

Process of finding and fixing errors in the syntax so the computer program will run properly

• Bugs
• Sequence
• Debugging
• Command

Specific instructions given to a computer.

• output

• list

• rules

• command

Any programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating “blocks” or graphical programming elements, rather than writing code using text.

• Command

• Run Program

• Algorithm

• Block-based programming language

When someone clicks, taps, or types on a computer screen this generates a(n)...

• code

• event

• algorithm

• program

Precise sequence of instructions for successfully carrying our a task. It can be written in everyday language but the steps might be capable of translation into a programming language.

• Decomposing

• Algorithm

• Logic

• Loop/ Repeat

The following code is drawing shapes when program runs. As you learned in the class, program code is executing in a sequential manner. In the code above how many of the steps will be executed when the program runs?

• 11

• 12

• 14

• 13

The following code is drawing shapes when the program runs. When the program runs, what shapes and how many of the shape will be drawn?

• One square

• Triangle

• Two square

• Two triangle