Computer Science essentials

The language that people use in daily conversations with each other.

• Natural Language

• Pseudocode

A way to work out the logic without worrying too much about the specifics of the language you are programming in.

• Variable

• Pseudocode

A software application that brings together the tools necessary to write, test, and debug computer programs while they are developed.

• Test Bed

• Integrated Development Environment

In programming, a named section of a program that performs a specific task

• function

• Python

The values that a program provides to a function or subroutine

• Argument

• Operators

Reducing by number by one

• Debugging

• Decrementing

The smallest unit of data storage that a program can use.

• variable

• Array

A text-based language designed to emphasize code readability with a syntax that allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ or Java.

• App Inventor

• Python

A programming statement that evaluates a true/false Boolean expression to determine the next steps in a program.

• Conditionals

• Loops

A programming statement that evaluates a true/false Boolean expression to determine the next steps in a program.

• Operators

• Nested-loop