Coding Vocabulary
Coding Grab Bag
Scratch
Computer Science
Grab Bag
100
A list of steps to finish a task. A set of instructions that can be performed with or without a computer.
What is an algorithm?
100
This type of coding involves dragging "blocks" of instruction.
What is block coding?
100
A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. In Scratch, our ____ is a cat.
What is a sprite?
100
the physical parts of a computer
What is hardware?
100
Founder of Apple
Who is Steve Jobs?
200
The instructions in a computer program that computer scientists use to tell a computer what to do.
What is code?
200
This type of coding used "0" and "1".
What is binary code?
200
The "forever" block in Scratch is an example of this.
What is looping?
200
The norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
What is digital citizenship?
200
This is an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.
What is a computer?
300
The action of doing something over and over again.
What is a loop?
300
This coding language is essentially the language of the web, and it is an excellent kids coding language for students who are ready for text-based coding.
What is Java Script?
300
Use this type of block to construct a dialogue between two sprites.
What is the "wait" block?
300
Software used to control the computer and its peripheral equipment
What is the operating system?
300
A computer that is portable.
What is a laptop?
400
An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine
What is a program?
400
In technical terms, this type of code is an object-oriented, high-level programming language with integrated dynamic semantics primarily for web and app development
What is Python?
400
This is used in a program so that the computer can make a decision based on a user response
What is a conditional?
400
Printed circuit board on which the CPU, RAM chips and other electronic circuit elements of a digital computer are frequently located.
What is the motherboard?
400
This is a markup language for creating a webpage.
What is HTML?
500
The process of identifying and fixing error(s) in a program when it is not functioning as expected
What is debugging?
500
A computer language programmers use to develop software programs, scripts, or other sets of instructions for computers to execute
What is a programming language?
500
In programming, this is a value that can change, depending on conditions or on information passed to the program
What is a variable?
500
the study of computers and computing concepts
What is Computer Science?
500
The proprietary operating system distributed by Microsoft
What is Windows?