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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






3. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






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






14. In algebraic expression the name of the storage location in which the result would be saved is expressed as ____________ .






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






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






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






18. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






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






22. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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






25. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






27. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. The address of a memory location






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






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






37. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






40. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






42. base value of a binary number system?






43. A reserved word for variable.






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






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






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






47. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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






50. Integer division is denoted by _____