Computer Programming Vocabulary

What is a computer program?

• a collection of instructions that performs a specific task when executed by a computer

• Something you can use to write a document

What do code and program mean?

• Create a password
• Writing step by step the instructions that tell the computer what to do

What is an algorithm?

• a well-defined procedure that allows a computer to solve a problem

• The first step of a computer program

Coding

• the act of creating a computer program

• a collection of instructions that performs a specific task when executed by a computer

• a loop is a sequence of instructions that is continually repeated until a certain condition is reached

a named section of a program that performs a specific task. In this sense it is like a type of procedure or routine

• step

• function

• loop

• conditional statement

a sequence of instructions that is continually repeated until a certain condition is reached

• variable

• function

• conditional statement

• loop

Each repetition of the process used to make improvements

• bug

• iteration

• input

an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result

• iteration

• virus

• bug

• variable

set of rules performed if a certain condition is me, often referred to as if/then statements

• computer program

• conditional statement

• function

• algorithm

some known or unknown quantity of information

• number

• variable

• equation

• algorithm