Computer Foundations
This term means the physical parts of a computer that you can touch.
What is hardware?
A step-by-step set of instructions for completing a task or solving a problem.
What is an algorithm?
Putting words inside these symbols tells a search engine to look for an exact phrase.
What are quotation marks?
This Python command displays information on the screen.
What is print()?
A single binary digit—a 0 or a 1—is called this.
What is a bit?
Google Chrome, Google Docs, and video games are all examples of this.
What is software?
In a flowchart, this shape represents a decision or question.
What is a diamond?
In the search jaguar -car, this symbol tells the search engine to leave out results containing the word “car.”
What is the minus sign?
This Python function asks the user a question and waits for them to enter an answer.
What is input()?
Using the place values 8, 4, 2, and 1, the binary number 1010 represents this decimal number.
What is 10?
This computer component processes instructions and performs most of the computer’s calculations.
What is the CPU?
These show the direction and order of steps in a flowchart.
What are arrows?
In the SIFT method, the “S” stands for this action you should take before immediately reacting to or sharing information.
What is Stop?
Because input() gives us text, we used this function to convert an answer into a whole number before doing math with it.
What is int()?
This is the name for one tiny square that makes up a digital image.
What is a pixel?
This type of memory temporarily holds information and programs that the computer is currently using.
What is RAM?
In our troubleshooting process, this should happen before you begin testing possible solutions.
What is identifying the problem / checking the problem first?
This SIFT step asks you to look for other reliable sources reporting the same information.
What is Find Better Coverage?
In Python, this operator checks whether two values are equal. Be careful—it is not the same as assignment.
What is ==?
This type of compression allows the original file to be rebuilt exactly, with no information permanently removed.
What is lossless compression?
ChromeOS, Windows, and macOS are examples of this type of software that manages a computer’s hardware and other programs.
What is an operating system?
This computational-thinking skill means breaking one large problem into smaller, more manageable pieces.
What is decomposition?
When checking a suspicious photo or video, finding strange hands, shadows, or backgrounds should be treated as this—not automatic proof that AI created it.
What is a clue / piece of evidence?
What will this code print if the user enters 85? if score >= 90: print("A") elif score >= 70: print("B") else: print("C")
What is B?
Using run-length encoding, compress this pattern: AAAAAABBBBCC.
What is 6A4B2C?