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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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1. Program Heading - Declaration Part (Label section - constant section - type section - variable section - subprogram section).






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






3. 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.






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






5. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






7. Statistics: square root of variance






8. The address of a memory location






9. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






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






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






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






15. Type of control structure: CASE






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






17. The remainder in a division.






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






19. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






20. Part of the program that may be repeated






21. Statistical middle






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






23. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






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






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






29. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






31. The grammatical rules of the language.






32. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






41. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






43. 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.






44. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






45. :=? 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.






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






47. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






50. base value of a binary number system?






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