Coding

Question 1

Programmer

Answer 1

A person who writes instructions for computers

Question 2

control pad

Answer 2

the control buttons a player uses

to direct the character

Question 3

rule

Answer 3

instructions that tell your object

what to do and when to do it

Question 4

Event

Answer 4

a trigger that the computer

recognizes and causes it to do an action

Question 5

Sequence

Answer 5

an ordered list of things which

can be triggered by an event or repeated

Question 6

Loop

Answer 6

code that repeats

Question 7

Randomness

Answer 7

a lack of pattern or predictability

in events

Question 8

Range

Answer 8

the highest and lowest numbers

“random” can choose from

Question 9

Collision

Answer 9

a rule for an object when it

comes in contact with another object

Question 10

Target

Answer 10

The goal of the game

Question 11

Bugs

Answer 11

errors in a program made by the

programmer

Question 12

debugging

Answer 12

finding and fixing programming

mistakes

Question 13

Concurrence

Answer 13

actions that happen at the same

time

Question 14

value (or variable)

Answer 14

a holder for a number

Question 15

conditional

Answer 15

“If ___ then ___.” statements

Question 16

physics engine

Answer 16

a set of rules that the objects in a

game follow to make the world feel “real”

Question 17

function

Answer 17

a way to save code so that you

can reuse it somewhere else

Question 18

reverse engineering

Answer 18

a practice in programming where you examine an existing program or machine and figure out how it works so that you can copy it

Question 19

Pair programming

Answer 19

two programmers take turns coding (One codes and the other watches for mistakes, and then they swap places.)

Question 20

iteration

Answer 20

the process of making small

changes to code and testing the changes frequently

Question 21

binary logic

Answer 21

the process of making decisions

where 0 = FALSE and 1 = TRUE

Question 22

inventory

Answer 22

A game element that helps the player keep track of the things they “have”