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The City School 2021-2022

Let’s Review

1. A computer program is a series of instructions that tell a computer to perform an
action.

2. Scratch is a free visual programming language developed to help simplify the

process of coding.
3. In Scratch, we write programs called Script. Each script controls an object called a
Sprite.

4. The Block Palette contains the blocks that we can use to make our scripts.

5. Robotics is becoming increasingly important at all levels of education and a variety
of educational robots have been developed.
6. Edison is tool to help learn and teach coding, robotics and STEAM.

7. Default settings of Edison’s three buttons:

• Record button 1 press = download program, 3 presses = scan barcode
• Stop button 1 press = stop program
• Play button 1 press = run program

8. EdScratch is a vertical block-based visual programming language based on Scratch.

My Word Bank!
Shrink
Visual programming
Computer program

Script
Programming language
Sprite
Stage

Edison

Edcomm cable
Line control sensor

Robotics Edscratch

Block palette Bug Box

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