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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. A reserved word for variable.






6. The grammatical rules of the language.






7. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






11. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






12. The remainder in a division.






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. ____________ 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).






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






20. Type of control structure: CASE






21. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. dividend / divisor = _______________






29. Outout and Input are _____






30. The address of a memory location






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






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






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






34. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






36. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






37. base value of a binary number system?






38. Part of the program that may be repeated






39. :=? 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.






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






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






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






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






44. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






47. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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