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General Programming

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






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






3. :=? 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.






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






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






6. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






10. Type of control structure: LOOP






11. The address of a memory location






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






13. 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






14. Statistical average






15. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






18. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






20. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






21. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






23. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






26. A reserved word for variable.






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






28. Outout and Input are _____






29. ____________ 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).






30. Type of control structure: CASE






31. 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.






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






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






34. Type _____ Error: False Negative






35. base value of a binary number system?






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






37. Statistical middle






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






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






40. A fixed position within source code: _________






41. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






42. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






44. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






46. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






49. Statistics: square root of variance






50. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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