Vocabulary

Academic Word List

  • query
  • graphics
  • programming language
  • identifier
  • dynamically

Other Vocabulary

  • scalability
  • characteristic
  • finance
  • Indeed
  • readability
  • structure
  • accomplish
  • sharp increase
  • marketplace
  • devices
  • purpose
  • function
  • developer
  • edition
  • Fortune 500
  • coding

Exercise

Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercises 1 and 2.

Pre-Reading

Use the questions to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question. Type in your group's main ideas to use afterwards for class discussion.

  1. Do they teach computer coding at your school?

  2. Do you think governmental leaders in education should make computer coding required study material in early education?

  3. How does a cell phone work? How does a calculator work? How does a computer work? Are these easy questions to answer simply? What is the simplest answer you can think of for each of these questions?

Exercise

Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercise 3.

Reading

Exercise

Look at the Reading about the Most In-demand Programming Languages of 2017, and use the skills you learned about previewing a text and making predictions from the previous reading strategy. Read the headings of each section, and look at the Topic Sentences of the paragraphs for key words. Afterwards, write down the intent of the entire Reading in one sentence (not using the title) then discuss and check it with your group.

Identifying Main Ideas

As you've seen up to this point, each paragraph in a well-written text needs to have an identifiable Main Idea and one or more Supporting Details and that validate and give importance to the Main Idea. The Outline structure you learned before looks like this:

  • Point 1 (plus first Support)
    • Support 1
      • Details
      • Analysis
    • Support 1
      • Details
      • Analysis

Exercise

Now look at each section with your group one at a time and analyze them for the overall takeaway. Organize and write down what you find as succinctly as possible. There are 9 sections in total, each of which can have 1 to 3 Supporting Details.


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