Coding Vocab
Something the programmer needs to fix.
What is a bug?
This famous video game franchise is written largely in C++ and features characters like Princess Peach and Toad.
What is Super Mario?
This everyday device can be found in pockets, backpacks, and purses. It contains sensors, processors, and software that make it a powerful computer.
What is a smartphone?
This man co-founded Microsoft and helped bring personal computers into homes around the world.
Who is Bill Gates?
This is the most watched sport in the United States with the 2024–25 season averaging around 17.5 million viewers per game.
What is American football?
This tiny symbol ends most C++ lines.
What is a semicolon?
This 1999 movie features a virtual reality world where computers control reality.
What is the Matrix?
This field of computer science focuses on teaching machines to ‘learn’ from data and improve over time without being explicitly programmed.
What is machine learning?
This was the first widely used graphical operating system for personal computers, released by Microsoft in 1985.
What is Windows?
This music style was pioneered in New York in the 1970s and includes rapping and breakdancing.
What is hip-hop?
This statement chooses between two options based on a condition.
What is an if/else statement?
This 2009 movie features a group of coders who develop an app that disrupts college social hierarchies.
What is The Social Network?
This popular professional role involves analyzing data to find patterns, build models, and help organizations make decisions.
What is a data scientist?
This computer scientist created the concept of a ‘universal machine’ and helped crack the Enigma code during World War II.
Hint: They made a movie about him.
Who is Alan Turing?
Known as the “Windy City,” it sits on the shores of Lake Michigan.
What is Chicago?
This data type can only store one of two values: true or false.
What is a boolean?
This Pixar movie’s main villain, a virus, traps characters inside a digital world called the Internet.
What is Ralph Breaks the Internet?
This type of robot is used in factories to weld cars, assemble parts, and perform repetitive tasks with high precision.
What is an industrial robot?
This early programmer created the first algorithm meant to be processed by a machine, making her the first computer programmer in history.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This date marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence in the United States.
What is July 4th?
This term describes the values you pass into a function when calling it.
What are arguments?
In this 2013 film, the main character falls in love with an AI operating system named Samantha.
What is Her?
This term describes software that runs on remote servers rather than on a personal device, allowing users to access apps through the internet.
What is cloud computing?
This early search engine, created in 1998 by two Stanford students, is now one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
What is Google?
This famous desert canyon is in Arizona and attracts millions of tourists each year.
What is the Grand Canyon?