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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






3. A reserved word for variable.






4. Statistical average






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






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






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






8. ____________ property: you can change the order of the numbers involved without changing the result






9. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






10. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. ____________ 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).






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






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






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






32. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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






35. :=? 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.






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






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






38. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






41. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






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






44. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






47. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






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