Algorithms

What symbol is a decision?

• Oval

• Rectangle

• Diamond

• Parallelogram

Answer explanation

Bananas are radioactive!

What is abstraction?

• A bug

• Removing unnecessary details

• A painting

• A program

Which of these is a sorting method?

• Bubble

• Binary

• Linear

• Denary

What is iteration?

• The user making a decision

• Outputting something to the user

• The order that instructions are carried out in

• A loop

What is a for loop?

• A loop that repeats a known number of times

• A loop that repeats until a condition is met

• A loop that only repeats twice

• The order in which instructions are carried out

What’s a global variable?

• A variable that can only be used inside the subroutine

• A variable that can be used in any program

• A variable that can be used outside the subroutine in the same program

• A variable that can only be used once

What are the 2 values for binary?

• 0

• 10

• 1

• 2

What are the 2 values of a Boolean?

• Yes

• False

• True

• No

What’s a flowchart?

• A piece of python code

• A way of writing an algorithm in a way that makes sense to humans but not computers

• A chart that represents the direction of flow of water

• A visual way of representing an algorithm

What is casting?

• Combining 2 strings together

• Separating one string into 2

• Converting a piece of text from one data type to another

• Fishing