Computer Science Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Break a problem down into smaller pieces.
- 4. The action of doing something over and over again.
- 5. A wireless method of sending information using radio waves.
- 8. The language that programmers create and use to tell a computer what to do.
- 9. A name you make up so that you can see or do things on a website, sometimes called a “screen name.”
- 10. Press the mouse button.
- 12. The most common fundamental unit of digital data eg. Kilobyte, Megabyte, etc. A single byte is 8 bits-worth of data.
- 15. A way of representing information using only two options.
- 18. A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.
- 20. Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program.
- 21. An easy-to-remember address for calling a web page (like www.code.org).
- 22. Computers that exist only to provide things to others.
- 24. The art of creating a program.
- 25. A list of steps to finish a task.
- 28. The information about someone on the Internet.
- 29. Using the power of computers to solve problems.
- 31. Cause the computer to execute the commands you've written in your program.
- 32. A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
- 33. An action that causes something to happen.
Down
- 1. A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web.
- 3. The visual programming language used in Code.org's online learning system for K-5 students.
- 6. A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again.
- 7. Doing something on the internet, usually again and again, to make another personal feel angry, sad, or scared.
- 11. An instruction for the computer. Many commands put together make up algorithms and computer programs.
- 13. To do something again.
- 14. Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information.
- 16. Someone who acts safely, responsibly, and respectfully online.
- 17. An error in a program that prevents the program from running as expected.
- 19. A connection that uses light to transmit information.
- 23. Statements that only run under certain conditions.
- 26. A contraction of "Binary Digit". A bit is the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.
- 27. A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.
- 30. An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.