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What is Computer Science?
Programming.
The creation and adaptation of technology!
Science of computers.
Thinking like a computer!
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What is a Comparator?
Something that compares two or more values.
Branching
Computational Thinking
A small set of instructions.
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Is Computer Science cool?!?!
Heck yeah :)
Nah :(
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What is Computational Thinking?
Thinking fast!
Thinking like a computer! Breaking problems into steps.
The creation and adaptation of technology.
A mini algortihm.
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What is programming?
Thinking like a computer!
Java and Python
Writing in the language of a computer.
Processing information.
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Select all the concepts that every programmer should keep in mind while designing.
Efficiency
Bulk
Clarity
Correctness
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What is an Algorithm?
A process to follow to solve a problem
Artificial Intellegence.
Improving computer graphics.
Adapting technology.
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What is Abstraction?
A type of art.
A form of recursion.
An interesting webpage.
A way to simplify problems by generalizing them.
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What is a Boolean?
A type of function.
A data type that can be true or false.
A bull in a china shop.
A set of instructions.
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What are variables?
Something the varies.
A piece of information.
Placeholder that represents a value.
They are data structures.
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What are examples of Data Types?
Bytes, Shorts, Longs
Booleans, Characters, Floats
Strings, Integers, Doubles
All of the Above
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What are Data Structures?
A type of data.
Looking into the technical aspects of Computer Science.
Complex elements of a loop.
A way to organize data!
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What are Loops?
Used to repeat code.
Used to measure infinity.
Used to make computers faster.
Used to perfect the Hula dance.
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What is an If/Else Statement?
A comparator that can determin the maximum value.
Thinking like a computer!
Instructions that makes a decision to do one statement or another.
A switch statement.
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What is branching?
Trying new programming languages.
Uses variables to keep track of instructions.
Can use if/else statements to run different paths of instruction.
Chopping down trees.
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Quick Peek at the Concepts!
DON'T DO IT D:
Click Me! :D
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Select all the terms that are associated with Computational Thinking!
Algorithm Design
Decomposition
Problem Solving
Pattern Recognition
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What does this image best represent?
Function
Loops
Algorithm
Abstraction
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What is Iteration?
Thinking like a computer!
Describes a round object.
The act of repeating a process.
To determine the purpose of a function.
