Tell the Computer What to Do: teacher key
How Coding Works, grade 1 edition, written for 1st grade. Learn what code is, who writes it, and why steps must go in order. Then meet a bug.
Read the book. Print this page for the key.
Questions and answers
- What is a program?
- A list of steps for a computer (answer)
- A kind of snack
- A funny hat
- Who writes the code?
- Cooks
- Bugs
- Programmers (answer)
- What is a bug in a program?
- A mistake (answer)
- A tiny bee
- A game
- Why do people give a computer steps?
- It is shy
- It cannot think for itself (answer)
- It is too small
Words
- program: list of steps
- programmers: code writers
- code: computer language
- bug: a mistake