CS1: Unit 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

What is a set of instructions (code) written in a language that a computer understands

Accepted Answer

Program

Question 2

What is a series of instructions that follow one another in order?

Accepted Answer

Sequence

Question 3

What are the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) address of any point on a computer screen?

Accepted Answer

X,Y coordinates

Question 4

What are sets of instructions that run at the same time on the computer?

Accepted Answer

Parallelism

Question 5

What is changing or converting code into ordinary language?

Accepted Answer

Decode

Question 6

What is an action that causes something to happen?

Accepted Answer

Event

Question 7

What are steps to complete a task?

Accepted Answer

Algorithm

Question 8

What is a belief that we can get smarter through hard work and practice?

Accepted Answer

Growth Mindset

Question 9

What is finding and fixing errors (bugs) in a program?

Accepted Answer

Debug

Question 10

What is two programmers working collaboratively on one device.

Accepted Answer

Pair programming

Question 11

What is an assigned an initial (beginning) value to a variable or object?

Accepted Answer

Initialize

Question 12

What is using the power of computers to solve problems and express ourselves?

Accepted Answer

Computer Science

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