Vocabulary Section 1

CodingPrograms

Hard DriveRam

What is coding?

• A special language that is used to write programs for computers.

• Different languages accomplish different tasks.

Programs

• The instructions a computer uses to complete a task. These instructions are written in code.

• Code= The languages used to write programs• Programs= The instructions used by your

computer to accomplish tasks.

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Hard Drive

• Device used for storing and retrieving digital information using one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks coated with magnetic material.

• Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially.

RAM

• random access memory, a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly; that is, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computers.

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