1.1.4 Guessing Game Vocab

Question 1

decrement

Answer 1

reduce in number by one

Question 2

incremental counter

Answer 2

loop that changes the value of a count by a certain amount every time an event occurs.

Question 3

scope

Answer 3

description of the parts of a program where a particular variable can be accessed and modified.

Question 4

local variable

Answer 4

stored data that is only used within a small scope of a project and cannot be used by other parts of the program.

Question 5

pseudocode

Answer 5

a way to work out the logic of a programming problem without worrying too much about the specifics of the language you are programming in

Question 6

initialize

Answer 6

set a starting value

Question 7

natural language

Answer 7

one that people use in daily conversations with each other

Question 8

horizontal arrangement

Answer 8

allow you to center items across the screen, put multiple components next to each other, and control how much of the screen is used

Question 9

global variable

Answer 9

stored data that may be used by any part of the program.

Question 10

complex conditionals

Answer 10

a series of checks that the computer moves through in sequence before setting the Boolean value to true or false to determine which process to do next

Question 11

sprint tasks

Answer 11

list of the individual parts that need development to address a backlog item.

Question 12

backlog

Answer 12

breaks down what the user wants into a sequential and prioritized list of what needs to be done to make the app do what the user wants

Question 13

abstracted variable

Answer 13

stored data that is already defined by the programming platform (MIT App Inventor)