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From the Ted Talk by Alex Rosenthal: The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2
Unscramble the Blue Letters
As a fugitive, Ethic can’t sneak into the crowd without drawing attention to herself. But she can give isnitnrctuos to Hedge. And one tool she has is what programmers call a conditional. That’s a statement of the form “If A, then B.” Flowcharts are garet illustrations of how those work. This conditional translates to: if A is true, carry out iitosntucrn B. There are also conditionals that account for different possibilities. This says, “If A is true, perform instruction B. Otherwise, crray out instruction C.”
Open Cloze
As a fugitive, Ethic can’t sneak into the crowd without drawing attention to herself. But she can give ____________ to Hedge. And one tool she has is what programmers call a conditional. That’s a statement of the form “If A, then B.” Flowcharts are _____ illustrations of how those work. This conditional translates to: if A is true, carry out ___________ B. There are also conditionals that account for different possibilities. This says, “If A is true, perform instruction B. Otherwise, _____ out instruction C.”
Solution
- instructions
- instruction
- great
- carry
Original Text
As a fugitive, Ethic can’t sneak into the crowd without drawing attention to herself. But she can give instructions to Hedge. And one tool she has is what programmers call a conditional. That’s a statement of the form “If A, then B.” Flowcharts are great illustrations of how those work. This conditional translates to: if A is true, carry out instruction B. There are also conditionals that account for different possibilities. This says, “If A is true, perform instruction B. Otherwise, carry out instruction C.”
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