Coding Vocabulary Quiz

What is an algorithm?

• A command for a computer

• A repetitive action or command

• A function

• A list of steps to finish a task

What is code?

• A repetitive action or command

• One or more commands or algorithms designed to be carried out by a computer

• A list of steps to finish a task

• A function

What is a command?

• a list of steps to finish a task - a set of instructions that can be performed with or without a computer

• statements that only run under certain conditions or situations

• finding and fixing errors in programs

• an instruction for the computer

What are conditionals?

• Finding and fixing errors in programs

• Statements that only run under certain conditions

• An instruction for the computer

• A function

What is debugging?

• finding and fixing errors in programs

• the action of doing something over and over again

• statements that only run under certain conditions or situations

• a loop that continues to repeat while a condition is true

What is a loop?

• A function

• An instruction for the computer

• An algorithm that can be run by a machine

• An action of doing something over and over again

What is a program?

• a list of steps to finish a task - a set of instructions that can be performed with or without a computer

• one or more commands or algorithms designed to be carried out by a computer

• an algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine

• finding and fixing errors in programs

What is a function?

• one or more commands or algorithms designed to be carried out by a computer

• a piece of code that you can easily use over and over again - sometimes called procedures

• a list of steps to finish a task - a set of instructions that can be performed with or without a computer

• a loop that continues to repeat while a condition is true

What is a variable?

• A function

• An instruction for the computer

• A loop that continues to repeat while a condition is true

• A placeholder for a piece of information that can change

What is iteration?

• a loop that continues to repeat while a condition is true

• a placeholder for a piece of information that can change

• the action of doing something over and over again

• a repetitive action or command typically created with programming loops