Coding: Conditionals

A program is:

• a series of steps to complete a task that a computer can understand.

• Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Ruby

• the action we want the program to take.

• a condition that is false.

Coding is:

• Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Ruby

• the action of writing instructions for a computer in a language that it can understand.

• a language that is more precise than English but less precise than a coding language.

• a specific action to be taken if the condition is false.

What is syntax?

• a catch-all for every other situation besides true.

• pieces of code that direct the program to run in different ways depending on what else is happening.

• a set of rules for how a language is written.

• English, Chinese, or Spanish.

Control flow statements:

• pieces of code that direct the program to run in different ways depending on what else is happening.

• determine which code is being carried out at a given time.

• give the program the flexibility to go down more than one path.

• all of these.

Pieces of code that only run "under certain conditions":

• conditional statements

• control flow statments

• syntax

• variables

What is a condition?

• JavaScript

• Something that has to be true in order for an action to be carried out.

• syntax

• pseudocode

This is a catch-all for every other situation besides the one where the condition is true.

• then

• do

• else

• if

What is/are true about pseudocode?

• somewhere between English and a coding language.

• more precise than English but less precise than a coding language.

• used by programmers to figure out the logic and flow of their programs without having to worry about syntax.

• all of these

A variable

• is a placeholder for a piece of information that can change.

• is like a bucket for holding information.

• can be written as letters or with longer words.

• all of these

Which symbol means "not equal to"?

• ==

• <=

• >=

• !=