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General Programming

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. The address of a memory location






10. Type _____ Error: False Negative






11. Statistical average






12. Type of control structure: LOOP






13. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






14. The remainder in a division.






15. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






17. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






20. Statistics: square root of variance






21. :=? 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.






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






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






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






25. A reserved word for variable.






26. Type ____ Error: False Positive






27. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






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






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






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






33. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






36. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






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






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






41. Type of control structure: CASE






42. A fixed position within source code: _________






43. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






44. A formula developed to solve a problem






45. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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. VAR and BEGIN and END are examples of _____ .






49. The number of times a number goes into a divisor.






50. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)







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