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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.






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






3. Statistics: square root of variance






4. The address of a memory location






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






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






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






8. Outout and Input are _____






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






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






18. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






20. The remainder in a division.






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






28. Statistical average






29. Part of the program that may be repeated






30. ____________ / divisor = quotient






31. :=? 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.






32. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






33. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






36. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






39. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






40. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






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






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






44. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






45. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






48. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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