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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.






2. Statistical average






3. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






5. The address of a memory location






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






7. ____________ 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).






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






9. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






20. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






22. :=? 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.






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






24. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






26. 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.






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






28. A fixed position within source code: _________






29. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






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






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






34. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






36. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






49. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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