Computer Science

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

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Bug

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Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems.

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Abstraction

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A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.

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Variable

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The action of doing something over and over again

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Loop

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Statements that only run under certain conditions or situations.

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Conditionals

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

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algorithm

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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).

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Computational Thinking

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One or more commands or algorithm(s) designed to be carried out by a computer.

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Coding/Programming

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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.

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Call a function

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Who was the first computer programmer?

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Ada Lovelace