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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.






2. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






5. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






6. Type of control structure: CASE






7. dividend / _____________ = quotient






8. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






11. Statistical average






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






13. The remainder in a division.






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






15. The grammatical rules of the language.






16. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






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






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






22. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






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






26. ____________ 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).






27. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






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






31. Helpful debugging aids for _________ errors: control totals or control breaks or trace routines






32. dividend / divisor = _______________






33. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






34. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






35. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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






38. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






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






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






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






44. Type _____ Error: False Negative






45. The address of a memory location






46. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






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






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