This week’s #STEMsigns is computer related…code and coding!
*Signs shown on #STEMsigns are seen and used by the community and are not created by Atomic Hands. We encourage you to evaluate the sign and adopt or discard it; or develop a new sign!
ASL STEM dictionaries – https://www.atomichands.com/asl-stem-dictionaries
Transcript: This week, we are focusing on computer related signs! We want to show 2 signs for code and coding. But first, we want to emphasize that STEM signs are still relatively new and always evolving. For some words, there are no established signs used by the community. Many of the signs you see on Atomic Hands come from ASL STEM dictionaries that you can find on our website or through our interactions with those in the STEM community. This week, we are talking about code and coding! When we look at a computer or our phone, or even our microwave, they require what? text and many lines…thats code required for telling it operating! Almost anything involving electronics has a set of codes telling it what to do and how to function. There are a series of inputs and outputs. For example, let’s use a microwave to heat up our lunch. When we put in the time, 2 minutes, to warm up our food, that is an input. You close the microwave and press start. The microwave motor starts turning and the timer counts down. When the time is up, the microwave shuts off and now your lunch, the output is ready. Code is a specific set of instructions that a computer can understand, like a recipe! There are many types of programming languages that use code such as JavaScript, Python, C++, and Perl. They all have their own unique language and can look like this. (show photo/s) This is a completed code. (switch sides) However when we write sentences, thats coding, often we will encounter errors in the coding and will have to go back and fix them. As we write the lines those become code! With code, we are able to use our imagination and come up with new apps, games, and even self-driving cars.
