VOCAB
HISTORY OF CODING
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
100
The language used to tell a computer what to do

CODE or PROGRAM

100

The brain of the modern computer

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU)

100

Person who write computer code

PROGRAMMER or CODER

200

One instruction for the computer

COMMAND

200

Herman Hollerith's first computer was used for this purpose; his company later became IBM

CENSUS 

200

Step by step ordered instructions in code

ALGORITHM

300

Code that is a "mini-program" that can be used over and over again (i.e. - Getting Ready for School)

FUNCTION

300

Strings of the numbers 1 and 0

BINARY CODE

300

Repeating sections of code 

LOOP

400

The action of repeating an instruction a set # of times

REPEAT

400

Created after World War II and is a switch that is smaller, faster and more reliable than the original glass tubes

TRANSISTOR

400

A mistake in computer code

BUG

500

The action of doing something over and over again without stopping

FOREVER
500

Contain many transistors onto a single chip

MICRPROCESSOR

500

A type of statement in the program that looks at special variables and then does specific things based on that (i.e.-Moby sitting in a seat in the classroom)

CONDITIONAL STATEMENT