Unit 1, Week 1 Vocabulary Words

A minute area of illumination on a display screen is a....

• byte

• Blockly

• pixel

• light

In Scratch, these are the commands that tell your sprite to move, turn, or glide.

• look

• sensing

• variables

• motion

In Scratch, the program your sprite follows to complete a task is called the....

• program

• script

• software

• text

Blockly is ___

• an intuitive way to build code

• text boxes that include computer code that snap together

• virtual building blocks, like Legos.

A person who writes computer programs is called a.....

• programmer

• coder

• keyboarder

• snowboarder

An electronic device for storing and processing data is called ___________________

• cell phone

• calculator

• computer

• a pencil

This is an online website with free visual programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab.

• Scrape

• Blockly

• Scratch

• Basic

This is a specific instruction given to perform some kind of task or function.

• Instructions

• Demand

• Prompt

• Command

This allows the program to repeat a step, or sequence of events continuously.

• Repeat

• Loop

• Motion

• Rotate

This is a two-dimensional character in Scratch programming.

• Coca-Cola

• sprite

• cat

• backdrop