The Brain
Building interactive physical systems using software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world.
What is physical computing?
Scientists who apply their knowledge of computation to creating solutions using a computer system.
What is a computer scientist?
An introductory programming method. Unlike traditional, text-based programming, block-based coding is a drag-and-drop programming environment.
What is block-based programming?
A flaw in a computer program that causes the program to produce an incorrect result or behavior.
What is a bug?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
A standard, short-range wireless connection for electronic devices.
What is Bluetooth?
To carry out or put into effect.
What is execute?
A small computer on a single integrated circuit containing a processor, memory, and programmable inputs and outputs.
What is a micro controller (or micro:bit)?
To identify bugs or errors in computer hardware or programs and fix them.
What is to debug?
It is the largest animal living in the world today?
What is the blue whale?
The science of creating artifacts and solving problems using the help of a computer. Some of the areas of focus include software engineering, programming, data analysis, algorithms, graphics, and animation.
What is computer science?
An ordered set of instructions that are used to carry out a task.
What is an algorithm?
A semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current.
What is an LED (light-emitting diode)?
Something unexpected that happens while a program is running (another word for bug).
What is an anamoly?
It is the fastest bird on foot.
What is an ostrich?
A set of instructions that a computer executes to achieve a particular objective.
What is a program?
A command that performs different actions depending on whether a condition is true or false.
What is a conditional statement?
The process of solving problems using a series of steps in the thinking process?
What is algorithmic thinking?
A method to analyze and record information about a program's execution.
What is code tracing?
What is about eight minutes?
A chip that processes information and data from input and delivers information or data as an output.
What is a processor?
A diagram that represents an algorithm, work flow, or process, and uses geometric symbols connected by arrows to show the direction of the flow of action.
What is a flowchart?
Repeating a process to yield results successively closer to the goal.
What is an iteration?
A program that translates instructions or code into a language that can be read and understood by a computer.
What is a compiler?
He was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?