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WorksheetsCoding Technical Vocabulary
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 12mins
One or more commands or algorithm(s) designed to be carried out by a computer.
Packets
Program
Code
Loop
Mental processes and strategies that include: decomposition, pattern matching,
abstraction, algorithms
Workspace
URL
Computational thinking
Wi-Fi
Statements that only run under certain conditions or situations.
Digital footprint
Code
Conditionals
Decompose
An instruction for the computer. Many commands put together make up algorithms and computer
programs.
Crowdsourcing
Command
Conditionals
Computer science
Getting help from a large group of people to finish something faster.
Fiber optic cable
Crowdsourcing
DSL/cable
Event
A field in which people use the power of computers to solve big problems.
Computer science
Event-handler
Internet
IP address -
A list of steps to finish a task. A set of instructions that can be performed with or without a computer.
Loop
Digital footprint
Fiber optic cable
Algorithm
Quantities, characters, or symbols that are the inputs and outputs of computer programs.
Debugging
DNS
Data
Digital citizen
A way of representing information using only two options.
Data
Code
Binary
DNS
Finding and fixing errors in programs.
Username
Debugging
Program
Servers
Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems.
Conditionals
Decompose
Abstraction
Bug
Break a problem down into smaller pieces.
Crowdsourcing
Function
Decompose
Internet
The information about someone on the Internet.
Digital footprint
Code
Bug
Username
(domain name service) - The service that translates URLs to IP addresses.
DNS
DSN
NDS
SDN
A monitor for a specific event or action on a computer.
Loop
Event-handler
Internet
Program
A method of sending information using telephone or television cables.
Function
Digital citizen
DSL/cable
Internet
A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.
Internet
Igloo
Intranet
inermy
Someone who acts safely, responsibly, and respectfully online.
DSL/cable
Debugging
Function
Digital citizen
Computers that exist only to provide things to others.
WI-Fi
Servers
Code
DNS
Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information.
Servers
Code
Packets
Computers
An action that causes something to happen.
Code
Event
Storyboard
Variable
A connection that uses light to transmit information.
Function
Fruit Loops
Fiber optic cable
Iteration
A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again.
Code
Function
Packets
Loop
A wireless method of sending information using radio waves.
Code
Loop
Wi-Fi
Storyboard
A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
Loop
Program
Code
IP address
A repetitive action or command typically created with programming loops.
Function
Event
Iteration
Loop
The area where you drag and drop commands to build your program.
DSL
Workspace
Digital footprint
Decompose
The action of doing something over and over again.
Loop
Variable
Wi-Fi
Storyboard
Finding similarities between things.
Run program
Pattern matching
Loop
Wi-Fi
Trying again and again, even when something is very hard.
Program
Persistence
Packets
My Peeps
An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.
URL
Program
Variable
Storyboard
An error in a program that prevents the program from running as expected.
Persistence
Bug
Debugging
Run program
Cause the computer to execute the commands you’ve written in your program.
Servers
Run program
Code
Loopy
a sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots
planned for the program.
Storyboard
Packets
URL
IP address
An easy-to-remember address for calling a web page (like www.code.org).
URL
DNS
IP
DSL
A name you make up so that you can see or do things on a website, sometimes called a
“screen name.”
Pattern matching
Username
Digital footprint
Computer science
A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.
Computational thinking
Bug
Variable
Crowdsourcing
