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General Programming

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






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






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






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






5. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Outout and Input are _____






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






15. ____________ 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).






16. Type of control structure: IF-THEN-ELSE






17. The remainder in a division.






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






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






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






21. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






24. Integer division is denoted by _____






25. The address of a memory location






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






27. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






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






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






32. A reserved word for variable.






33. Statistical average






34. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






49. base value of a binary number system?






50. A formula developed to solve a problem