Coding Terms
Coding Terms
Women in STEM
Girls Inc Facts
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What is the term for the process of giving a computer a set of instructions in a language that they will understand

Coding 

100

What is the term for a container that can store information like numbers and words/sentences?

Variables 

100

She helped launch a nuclear-powered rocket in 1963 and worked as a human-computer all while she was at NASA 

Annie Easley

100

What is the Girls Inc motto?

Inspiring Girls to be strong, smart, and bold 

100

What is the most popular ice cream flavor? 

Chocolate Ice Cream

200

What is the term for when there is a problem in the code? 

Bug in the Code 
200

A category of strings can hold words and phrases

Strings 

200

Founder of Girls Who Code 

Reshma Saujani 

200

What ages do Girls Inc serve? 

5-18 years old 

200

What is Wisconsin most known for?

Dairy/cheese state 

300
What is the term for a certain set of instructions that are meant to solve a specific problem? 

Algorithms 

300

A line of code that tells the computer to repeat something 

Loops 

300

CEO of Girls Who Code. Chief Program Officer of IMentor and helped develop software engineering in school curriculum 

Dr. Tarika Barnett

300

What state was Girls Inc founded in? 

New York

300

What is the largest living animal? 

A blue whale 

400

What is the term for computers to make decisions based on user inputs? 

Conditionals 

400

Reusable, organized code that is used to perform a task 

Functions 

400

Founder and CEO of Black Girls Code 

Kimberly Bryant 

400

What year was Girls Inc founded?

1864

400

Give an example conditionals 

if...then statements 

500

The Process of planning, problem-solving, and analyzing information

Computational thinking 

500

Used to link variables or functions, Examples: +, ==, &&

Operators 

500

A mathematician who worked at Nasa to calculate and analyze paths of rocket ships to the moon

Katherine Johnson 

500

Who is the founder of Girls Inc? 

Rachel Harris Johnson 

500

Give an example of computational thinking? 

Sequencing and Decomposition