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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ____________ property: you can group numbers in any way without changing the answer






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






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






4. base value of a binary number system?






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






6. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






9. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






10. Outout and Input are _____






11. Statistical average






12. Statistical middle






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






14. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






16. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






18. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






19. In Linear Programming ____________ variables are used to convert inequalities to equalities






20. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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






23. Integer division is denoted by _____






24. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






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






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






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






30. ____________ 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).






31. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






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






34. Statistics: square root of variance






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






36. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






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






39. Type _____ Error: False Negative






40. 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






41. 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.






42. ____________ property: you can change the order of the numbers involved without changing the result






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






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






45. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






46. Type ____ Error: False Positive






47. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






50. Type of control structure: CASE