Computer Basics
A machine that works with information.
What is a computer?
This stands for “HyperText Markup Language” and is used to create web pages.
What is HTML?
This stands for “Cascading Style Sheets” and describes how HTML elements should look.
What is CSS?
Part of a program that does not work correctly.
What is a bug?
Additional information provided as input to a block to customize its functionality.
What is a parameter?
The information computers get from users, devices, or other computers.
What is input?
A piece of a website, marked by a start tag and often closed with an end tag.
What is an HTML element?
The part of a CSS rule that defines which HTML elements a style should be applied to.
What is a CSS selector?
Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program.
What is debugging?
A character on the screen with properties that describe its location, movement, and look.
What is a sprite?
The information computers give to users, devices, or other computers.
What is output?
The special set of characters that indicates the start and end of an HTML element and that element’s type.
What is an HTML tag?
An identifier that allows multiple elements in an HTML document to be styled the same way.
What is a CSS class?
An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.
What is a program?
A label for a characteristic of a sprite, such as its location or appearance.
What is a property?
The “thinking work” computers do to turn input into output.
What is processing?
The text and images on a website.
What is website content?
A layout model in CSS used for displaying and lining up items on a page.
What is flexbox?
A label for a piece of information used in a program.
What is a variable?
Statements that only run when certain conditions are true.
What are conditionals?
Saving information to use in the future.
What is storage?
How the content of a website is organized.
What is website structure?
This HTML “division” element lets you group sets of content together in a container.
What is a div?
A named bit of programming instructions.
What is a function?
A simplified representation of something more complex that helps manage details and focus on important ideas.
What is abstraction?