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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Program Heading - Declaration Part (Label section - constant section - type section - variable section - subprogram section).






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






3. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






6. :=? 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.






7. A fixed position within source code: _________






8. Integer division is denoted by _____






9. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






10. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






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






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






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






16. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






18. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






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






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






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






24. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






25. Statistical average






26. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






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






28. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






32. The grammatical rules of the language.






33. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






37. Outout and Input are _____






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






39. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






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






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






45. The remainder in a division.






46. A reserved word for variable.






47. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






49. 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.






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