Intro to Programming Vocab quiz

A programming language with many commands and features designed to make common tasks easier to program.

• Low level programming

• Function

• Algorithm

• Iterate

A programming language that captures only the most primitive operations available to a machine.

• High level programming

• Iterate

• Sequencing

• Selection

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

• Selection

• Sequencing

• Iterate

• Algorithm

A generic term for a type of programming statement (usually an if-statement) that uses a Boolean condition to determine, or select, whether or not to run a certain block of statements.

• Selection

• Pair Programming

• Function

• Abstraction

Putting commands in correct order so computers can read the commands.

• Sequencing

• Selection

• Turtle Programming

• Function

A method of programming in which two programmers write code using a single computer

• Pair Programming

• Sequencing

• Turtle Programming

• Function

A simplified representation of something more complex.

• Abstraction

• Function

• Top Down Design

• Creativity

A precise sequence of instructions for processes that can be executed by a computer

• Algorithm

• Sequencing

• Selection

• Function

A classic method for learning programming with commands to control movement and drawing of an on-screen robot called a "turtle"

• Turtle Programming

• Selection

• Top Down Design

• Developmment

A named group of programming instructions

• Function

• Sequencing

• Algorithm

• Abstraction