What is a Computer?

Building interactive physical systems using software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world.

• Conditional Statement

• Execute

• Physical Computing

• Bluetooth

The science of creating solutions 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.

• Interference

• Microcontroller

• Computer Science

• Flow Chart

A standard, short-range wireless connection for electronic devices

• Bluetooth

• Conditional Statements

• Algorithms

• Physical Computing

An interruption or break in a signal or transmission from one device to another

• Execute

• Interference

• Computerscientist

• Algorithmic Thinking

A set of instructions that a computer executes to achieve a particular objective

• Physical Computing

• Bluetooth

• Program

• Algorithms

A small computer on a single integrated circuit containing a processor, memory, and programmable inputs and outputs.

• Computer Scientist

• Problem Decomposing

• Interference

• Microcontroller

To carry out or put into effect

• Interference

• Execute

• Flow Chart

• Program

Scientists who apply their knowledge of computation to creating solutions using a computer system

• Computer Scientist

• Conditional Statements

• Physical Computing

• Computer Science

An ordered set of instructions that are used to carry out a task

• Algorithmic Thinking

• Bluetooth

• Algorithms

• Program

The process of solving problems using a series of steps.

• Algorithmic Thinking

• Microcontroller

• Interference

• Algorithms