Vocabulary Terms for Coding

1. Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems.

• Decomposing

• Coding

• Abstraction

• Computer Science

2. A sequence of instructions ( list of steps) to solve a class of problems or perform computation.

• Algorithm

• Computational Thinking

• Decomposing

• Abstraction

3. Mental processes and strategies that include: decomposition, pattern matching, abstraction, algorithms (decomposing problems into smaller, more manageable problems, finding repeating patterns, abstracting specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems, and creating step-by-step algorithms).

• Algorithm

• Computer Science

• Abstraction

• Computational Thinking

4. True/False - Computer Science is the study of computers.

• True

• False

5. To break a problem down into smaller pieces.

• Code

• Decompose

• Abstraction

• Command

6. Finding similarities between things

• Look-a-like programming

• Coding

• Machine Language

• Pattern Matching