CS Scratch Vocabulary

This is a programming structure that repeats a sequence of instructions until a specific condition is met.

• Loop

• Bitmap

• Parallelism

• Critique Group

This is an action or occurrence recognized by software.

• Event

• Parallelism

• Control

• Animation

Events that happen simultaneously (at the same time) are and example of ___________.

• Loops

• Parallelism

• Events

• Broadcast

This is one of the nine categories of Scratch blocks. They are color-coded gold, and are used to control scripts.

• Control

• Parallelism

• Events

• Scripts

This is an Event block and a Stack block. The block sends a message throughout the whole Scratch project. Any scripts that start with the When I Receive () block and are set to the matching broadcast will activate.

• Critique Group

• Broadcast

• Control

• Events

These are a list of commands that are executed by a certain program.

• Scripts

• Loops

• Animation

• Critique Groups

This is a method by which a display space (such as a graphics image file) is defined, including the colour of each of its pixels.

• Bitmap

• Vector

• Animation

• Broadcast

This is a computer-made image that is made up of points, lines, and curves that are based upon mathematical equations, rather than pixels.

• Vector

• Animation

• Bitmap

• Control

This is a method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.

• Animation

• Vector

• Bitmap

• Parallelism

These are groups of programmers who share their work with each other on a regular basis for the purpose of exchanging feedback and improving their programming skills.

• Critique Groups

• Events

• Loops

• Scripts