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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A programming paradigm that uses data structures consisting of datafields and methods together with their interactions - to design applications and computer programs.






2. Statistical middle






3. The remainder in a division.






4. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






6. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. A ____________ procedure is one in which a statement or set of statements are embedded within other statements






12. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






13. ____________ / divisor = quotient






14. ____________ 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).






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






22. The address of a memory location






23. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






26. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






29. Item of information necessary for a program or subprogram to perform its task.






30. A reserved word for variable.






31. A variable which will keep track of the number of occurrences of a certain transaction






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






33. A formula developed to solve a problem






34. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






35. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






37. :=? is an ________. Here the varaible to be assigned a value must appear on the left of the assignment operator and a legal expression must appear on the right side.






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






39. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






40. Any number that does not have a decimal in it.






41. Type of error: A violation of rules made by the programmer






42. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






43. Outout and Input are _____






44. Using only the two binary digits (bits) 0 and 1 to represent information in a computer.






45. A fixed position within source code: _________






46. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






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






50. Fixed number of similar data elements - each element can be retrieved through an index.