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Backpack

A place in the block-programming area where a programmer can choose code to save and take out later to use in another program

Bug

A flaw in a computer program that causes the program to produce an incorrect result or behavior

 collapse or expand blocks

When you right-click on an event handler and it gets reduced to 1 line of code or right click and return the code to its block form

comments

A place where the programmer shares a message about what he did in the code with others

compiler

A program that understands if a computer can “read” and understand the code blocks. It displays a warning count in the bottom left corner of the Blocks Viewer when it can’t read the code.

conditional statement

Part of a code that performs different actions depending on whether a condition is true or false or a yes/no answer

debug

The attempt to find and fix errors in computer hardware or programs

disable  

the block is gray and “turned off” so that code is skipped

Do It

The Do It command helps you test your code one block at a time.

enable

the block is “turned on” so that block of code is included

error

An incorrect result produced by a computer program

incrementally

Build code a few chunks at a time and test before moving on

live programming

Changes made in a program update on the tablet using the MIT Inventor App