An instruction for the computer. Many of these put together make up algorithms and computer programs.

• Command

• Directions

• Instruction

• Program

A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again.

• Loop

• Function

• Block

• Iteration

The action of doing something over and over again.

• Constant loop

• Repetition structure

• Repeat commands

• Loop

Information. Often, quantities, characters, or symbols that are the inputs and outputs of computer programs.

• Bits

• Bugs

• Data

• Languages

Causes the computer to execute the commands you've written in your program.

• Debug

• Run

• Process

• Execute

A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.

• Constant

• Static

• Variable

• Dynamic

Any programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating “blocks” or graphical programming elements, rather than writing code using text. Examples include Code Studio, Scratch, or Tynker (Sometimes called visual coding, drag and drop programming, or graphical programming blocks)

• Block-based

• Coding

• Text based

• Visual based

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).

• Computational thinking

• Hierarchical thinking

• Linear patterns

• Logical dissection

An error in a program that prevents the program from running as expected.

• Villain

• Bat

• Rat

• Bug

This is the piece of code that you add to a program to indicate that the program should run the code inside a function at a certain time.

• Access

• Call

• Conditional

• Retrieve