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General Programming

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






2. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






4. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






5. Type ____ Error: False Positive






6. A reserved word for variable.






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






8. Statistical average






9. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






11. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






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






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






16. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






27. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






30. A fixed position within source code: _________






31. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






33. :=? 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.






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






35. 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.






36. The address of a memory location






37. ____________ 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).






38. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Type of control structure: CASE






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






47. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






48. The remainder in a division.






49. 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






50. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)