Vocabulary Computer science (coding)

A data type that can be a value of either true or false; sometimes derived from the use of comparison or logical operators and used in control structures like loops and conditionals.

• broadcasting

• coordinate plane

• Debugging

• Boolean

Sending information to many receivers. In Scratch, blocks can be programmed to send and receive broadcast messages and trigger code to run.

• debugging

• data

• broadcasting

• concatenation

A style used to name things such as variables and functions. The first word in camel case is lowercase, and then each word after that starts with a capital letter.

• sprite

• camel casing

• boolean

• coordinate plane

The process of combining two pieces of data together. A join block is used in Scratch to concatenate text and/or number data.

• concatenation

• stage

• loop

• data

A decision-making structure that executes certain code depending on whether a comparison is true or false.

• conditional statement

• variable

• operators

• data

A surface formed by two numbered, perpendicular lines.

• sprite

• stage

• coordinate plane

• broadcasting

A piece of information. In Scratch, data can be words, also called "strings," or numbers.

• loop

• variable

• debugging

• data

To identify and remove errors from code.

• camel casing

• pseudocode

• debugging

• data

The action of doing something over and over again. Also known as a repeat block in Scratch, it is used to repeat a set of steps a desired amount of times within a program.

• operators

• loop

• stage

• broadcasting

Symbols that instruct the computer to perform a single, simple task such as adding or subtracting numbers or comparing two values.

• loop

• debugging

• operators

• data