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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The address of a memory location






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






3. :=? 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.






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






5. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Type of control structure: CASE






14. Statistical middle






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






16. A reserved word for variable.






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






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






19. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






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






23. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






25. base value of a binary number system?






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






27. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






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






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






32. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






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






36. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. ____________ 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).






46. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






47. 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






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






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






50. 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.