Scripting and Programming Foundations
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Three basic instruction types - ✔✔Input, process, output
Computational thinking - ✔✔Creating a sequence of instructions to solve a
problem (aka algorithm)
Algorithm - ✔✔A sequence of instructions that solves a problem
Flowchart - ✔✔A graphical language for creating or viewing computer programs
Coral Code Language - ✔✔A language intended for learning to program
Two versions: flowchart and code
Looks like pseudocode, but follows rules that allow execution
Program - ✔✔A list of statements
Each statement is carrying out some action and executing one at a time
String literal - ✔✔consists of text (characters) within double quotes
Ex: "Go #57!".
Cursor - ✔✔Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the next
output
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,The system automatically moves the cursor after the previous output item
Newline - ✔✔\n
Special sequence who appearance in an output string literal causes the cursor to
move to the next output line
Exists visibly in the output
Comment - ✔✔// this is an example of a comment
Text a programmer adds to a program to be read by humans but ignored by a
program when executing
Use // before the comment
Includes the entire line of text.
White space - ✔✔Refers to blank spaces between items within a statement and
to newlines
Improves readability
Ignored in execution
Moore's Law - ✔✔Observation that switch sizes reduce by half every two years
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, Bit - ✔✔A single unit of binary consisting of only one place whose value can be 0
or 1.
Byte - ✔✔8 bits
ASCII - ✔✔A popular code for characters
Pseudocode - ✔✔Text that resembles a program in a real programming
language but is simplified to aid human understanding.
Variable - ✔✔A named item used to hold a value
Assignment statement - ✔✔Assigns a variable with a value; and keeps that
value during subsequent statement until X is assigned again.
Assignment's left side must be a variable (ex. x=5)
Variable declaration - ✔✔Declares a new variable, specifying the variables name
and type
Integer variable type - ✔✔Can hold whole number values
Expression - ✔✔A combination of items like variables, literals, operators, and
parentheses that evaluate to a value
Ex.) y=2*(x+1)
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Correct Answers
Three basic instruction types - ✔✔Input, process, output
Computational thinking - ✔✔Creating a sequence of instructions to solve a
problem (aka algorithm)
Algorithm - ✔✔A sequence of instructions that solves a problem
Flowchart - ✔✔A graphical language for creating or viewing computer programs
Coral Code Language - ✔✔A language intended for learning to program
Two versions: flowchart and code
Looks like pseudocode, but follows rules that allow execution
Program - ✔✔A list of statements
Each statement is carrying out some action and executing one at a time
String literal - ✔✔consists of text (characters) within double quotes
Ex: "Go #57!".
Cursor - ✔✔Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the next
output
1|Page
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,The system automatically moves the cursor after the previous output item
Newline - ✔✔\n
Special sequence who appearance in an output string literal causes the cursor to
move to the next output line
Exists visibly in the output
Comment - ✔✔// this is an example of a comment
Text a programmer adds to a program to be read by humans but ignored by a
program when executing
Use // before the comment
Includes the entire line of text.
White space - ✔✔Refers to blank spaces between items within a statement and
to newlines
Improves readability
Ignored in execution
Moore's Law - ✔✔Observation that switch sizes reduce by half every two years
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, Bit - ✔✔A single unit of binary consisting of only one place whose value can be 0
or 1.
Byte - ✔✔8 bits
ASCII - ✔✔A popular code for characters
Pseudocode - ✔✔Text that resembles a program in a real programming
language but is simplified to aid human understanding.
Variable - ✔✔A named item used to hold a value
Assignment statement - ✔✔Assigns a variable with a value; and keeps that
value during subsequent statement until X is assigned again.
Assignment's left side must be a variable (ex. x=5)
Variable declaration - ✔✔Declares a new variable, specifying the variables name
and type
Integer variable type - ✔✔Can hold whole number values
Expression - ✔✔A combination of items like variables, literals, operators, and
parentheses that evaluate to a value
Ex.) y=2*(x+1)
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