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General Programming

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1. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






4. Type of control structure: IF-THEN-ELSE






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






6. The address of a memory location






7. base value of a binary number system?






8. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






9. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






12. Statistics: square root of variance






13. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






14. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






16. ______ causes an advance to a new input line from which subsequent values will be read






17. A string _________ is the operation of joining two character strings end to end.






18. Type of control structure: LOOP






19. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






20. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






21. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






22. Zero sum game theory problems can be solved by means of ____________ programming






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






24. An _________ language is a programming language where the programs written in that language are not translated or "compiled" into the machine code of the computer it is on - which then is directly executed by the host CPU but instead is indirectly ex






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






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






27. It allocates storage for programs and data and carry out many other supervisory functions. It acts as an interface between the user and the machine.






28. ____________ property: says that if a = b and b = c then a = c.






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






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






31. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






33. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






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






36. Numbers that contain decimal points - can be any number including decimal numbers. Can be expressed as a scientific notation.






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






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






39. VAR and BEGIN and END are examples of _____ .






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






41. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






44. Integer division is denoted by _____






45. The remainder in a division.






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






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






48. The information that is produced to solve the problem.






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






50. ____________ is a measure of the amount of variation within the values of that variable taking account of all possible values and their probabilities or weightings (not just the extremes which give the range).







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