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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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1. Statistics: square root of variance






2. :=? 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.






3. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






6. Type of control structure: LOOP






7. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






9. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Statistical average






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






17. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






18. dividend / divisor = _______________






19. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






22. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






23. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






26. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. dividend / _____________ = quotient






32. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






33. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






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






37. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






39. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






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






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






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






45. A fixed position within source code: _________






46. The remainder in a division.






47. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






49. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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







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