Vocab test 2-7-25

Question 1

Boolean

Answer 1

a statement which must be true or false. Booleans can be used as conditions in programming

Question 2

condition

Answer 2

something which can be true or false and is used to decide whether an action happens

Question 3

Conditional statement

Answer 3

a statement with multiple possible outcomes which depend on a condition.

Question 4

Pseudocode

Answer 4

Instructions for how a program will work in plain language

Question 5

Flow chart

Answer 5

a diagram which shows how a program will run by connecting the different steps with arrows.

Question 6

Collision detection

Answer 6

a program, when the overlap of one or more objects is detected. Often found in video games where objects are programmed to react to detected collisions.

Question 7

Open source

Answer 7

describes software whose source code is freely available and can be revised and redistributed as anyone sees fit.

Question 8

operator

Answer 8

used to compare or modify data in order to build expressions that can be evaluated. The types in scratch include arithmetic, comparison, and boolean

Question 9

Evaluate

Answer 9

To determine the new value that is returned from an expression that uses and operator

Question 10

Arithmetic operators:

Answer 10

an operator that evaluates two number inputs and gives another number as the output result

Question 11

comparison operator

Answer 11

an operator that evaluates two numeric or text inputs and gives Boolean (true/ false) output result

Question 12

Boolean operator

Answer 12

an operator that takes boolean as input and evaluates to a boolean result

Question 13

Expression

Answer 13

a statement in coding that combines values, functions, operators, ect,. So they can be evaluated to determine a new value.