Algorithms and Programming
A list of steps that you can use to follow a task.
What is an algorithm?
The name given to a basic binary unit.
What is a bit?
This can be analyzed to identify patterns and trends that can help in predicting future outcomes or trends.
What is data?
The keyboard shortcut for copying selected text or files to the clipboard in Windows.
What is Ctrl+C?
A software program that helps users find information on the internet by searching for keywords or phrases.
What is a search engine?
An algorithm (or collection of algorithms) that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.
What is a program?
Software used to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
What is Office Suite (e.g. Microsoft Office, Google Workspace)?
This can be used to show changes in data over time, making it useful for illustrating trends and patterns, and thus communicating an idea or concept.
What is a graph?
The keyboard shortcut that can be used to undo the last action in most text editing programs.
What is Ctrl+Z?
A password that includes a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
What is a strong password?
The act of doing something over and over again
What is looping?
The physical component of a computer that is responsible for storing data even when the computer is turned off.
What is a hard drive?
A program which replicates or mimics key features of a real world event in order to investigate its behavior without the cost, time, or danger of running an experiment in real life.
What is a model or siumulation?
This keyboard shortcut is commonly used to paste text or files from the clipboard in most operating systems.
What is Ctrl+V?
The collected information about an individual across multiple websites on the internet
What is a digital footprint?
An action that causes something to happen.
What is an event?
The term for a small, portable storage device that uses flash memory to store data and is commonly used for transferring files between devices.
What is a USB Drive (or Thumb Drive)
The software you would open to input data and make a graph or chart.
What is Excel?
This keyboard shortcut is commonly used to switch between open applications or windows in most operating systems.
What is Alt+Tab (Windows) or Command+Tab (macOS)?
The most important rule for staying safe online.
What is never sharing personal information with strangers?
Programs that only run when certain parameters or conditions are met.
What are conditionals?
The term for software that is installed on a computer system to perform specific tasks or functions.
What is Application Software (or Apps)?
The process of examining and interpreting data in order to understand and make sense of it.
What is analyzing?
This keyboard shortcut is used to open the Task Manager.
What is Ctrl+Shift+Esc?
When a thief steals someone’s private information in order to pretend to be that person.
What is identify thief?