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General Programming

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1. What are Sequence and Selection/Decision and Iteration/Repetition?






2. The number of times a number goes into a divisor.






3. Part of the program that may be repeated






4. Program Heading - Declaration Part (Label section - constant section - type section - variable section - subprogram section).






5. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






6. ____________ property: you can group numbers in any way without changing the answer






7. The process of implementing in some programming language the variables (and structures) used to store the data and the algorithms for solving a problem.






8. The place where the instructions and data are stored.






9. An effective method for solving a problem using a finite sequence of instructions.






10. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






11. Type _____ Error: False Negative






12. In constant declarations to associate an identifier with a constant an sign is used






13. A fixed position within source code: _________






14. Allocate memory when needed and return memory when done: _________ _________






15. One of a number of alternative actions is selected and executed.






16. Integer division is denoted by _____






17. Examples of _____ are: integer and real and true and false and read and readln and write and writeln.






18. A programming paradigm that uses data structures consisting of datafields and methods together with their interactions - to design applications and computer programs.






19. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






20. Type of control structure: LOOP






21. The steps are performed in a strictly sequential manner - each step being executed exactly once.






22. A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.






23. In Linear Programming a _________ is a means for simplifying the solution






24. Statistical middle






25. The information that is given and which items are important in solving the problem.






26. A _________ is a new way to use breakpoints. It is a breakpoint with a custom action associated with it. When hit it causes the debugger to perform the specified action instead of (or in addition to) breaking program execution.






27. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.






28. It controls the operation of the entire system and performs the arithmetic and logic operations and and stores and retrieves instructions and data.






29. Information is placed into a storage location by means of an ____________ statement






30. _________ error: The program performs a task but it is not the task that was desired






31. Any collection of data to be input to a program or output from a program.






32. The remainder in a division.






33. It is concern with checking that the algorithms and the program meet the problem's specification.






34. In Linear Programming ____________ variables are used to convert inequalities to equalities






35. The person responsible for programming applications such as payroll or inventory or accounts receivable etc is the _________ programmer






36. It fetches the instructions from the memory and decodes them and and directs the system to execute the operations indicated by the instructions.






37. A _________ is a group of instructions within a computer program that performs a specific function.






38. It is used to predicts the circuit's lifetime.






39. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






40. In a _________ language the entire program is converted to binary prior to the execution of the program






41. Type of control structure: CASE






42. A system in which negative numbers are represented by the two's complement of the absolute value.






43. Quantities whose values do not change during program execution.






44. Statistics: square root of variance






45. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






46. In a loop while construct the loop will be terminated upon the introduction of a ____________ ____________






47. The address of a memory location






48. Each element in an array is identified by a number called a ____________ which designates position in the array






49. ______ must have at least one digit before and at least one digit after the decimal`






50. Type ____ Error: False Positive







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