a series of steps to complete a task that a computer can understand.

Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Ruby

the action we want the program to take.

a condition that is false.

Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Ruby

the action of writing instructions for a computer in a language that it can understand.

a language that is more precise than English but less precise than a coding language.

a specific action to be taken if the condition is false.

a catch-all for every other situation besides true.

pieces of code that direct the program to run in different ways depending on what else is happening.

a set of rules for how a language is written.

English, Chinese, or Spanish.

pieces of code that direct the program to run in different ways depending on what else is happening.

determine which code is being carried out at a given time.

give the program the flexibility to go down more than one path.

all of these.

conditional statements

control flow statments

syntax

variables