Coding Vocabulary

An instruction for the computer is called a ____________.

• Steps

• Letters

• Command

• Songs

The language that programmers create and use to tell a computer what to do.

• Algorithm

• Spanish

• Conditional

• Code

What is a variable?

• A placeholder that stores a value that can change.

• The area where all commands are typed.

• A block of code containing commands.

• Finding and fixing a bug in a program.

An error in a program that stops it from working in the way it should is a/an _______.

• Debug

• Bug

• Conditional

• Algorithm

What is a precise sequence of instructions for successfully carrying out a task called?

• Binary

• Bug

• Algorithm

• Repeat

This is the process of performing the same task over and over again for a set number of times or forever.

• Bug

• Loop/Repeat

• Binary

• Conditional

What is a statement that only runs when something else happens first called?

• Error

• Algorithm

• Variable

• Conditional

A number or a word that is given to a variable is called a/an ____________.

• Error

• Conditional

• Value

• Algorithm

The common programming structure that implements "conditional statements."

• If - statement

• Code

• Set Algorithm

• Forever Loop

A piece of code that you can call over and over again.

• Data

• Function

• Program

• Event