Unit 1 Vocab
A machine that processes information.
What is a computer?
A collection of public copyright licenses.
What are Creative Commons?
An expression that evaluates to True or False in programming.
What is a Boolean Expression?
Ex. Are you 18 years of age or older?
Create a paragraph in HTML.
What is <p> and </p>?
HTML stands for this.
What is Hypertext Markup Language?
The work done to turn an input into an output.
What is processing?
This helps separate different parts of the document or workspace to make it easier to read.
What is whitespace?
An attribute that describes an object's characteristics.
What is a property?
Ex. position, scale, rotation, visible, height, width
Create an unordered list in HTML.
What is <ul> and </ul>?
CSS stands for this.
What is Cascading Style Sheets?
A series of commands computers use to process information.
What is an algorithm?
The number of different heading sizes in an HTML web page.
What is six?
A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.
What is a variable?
Ex. var x = ?;
Draw all of the sprites that are on the screen.
What is drawSprites ()?
The estimated number (in millions) of possible RGB color values.
What is 17,000,000
Exact amount is 16,777,216
Any device that receives info from a computer.
What is an output device?
This element contains the HTML tags <h1> and </h1>.
What is a heading?
An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need.
What is a parameter?
Ex. createSprite (200, 200, 50, 100)
Animate shapes and images.
What is function (draw)?
The four main steps of the Problem Solving Process.
What are Define, Prepare, Try, and Reflect?
A device that allows info to be given to a computer.
What is an input device?
The HTML tag <li> stands for this.
What is a list item?
Any valid unit of code that resolves to a value.
What is an expression?
Ex. var circleSize = 450;
Name the conditional command that responds to a key being pressed once on the keyboard.
What is keyWentDown?
The "Boolean Expression" was named after this English mathematician.
Who is George Boole?