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General Programming

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Type of control structure: CASE






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






21. Type _____ Error: False Negative






22. 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






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






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






25. Outout and Input are _____






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






27. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






29. Statistical average






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






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






32. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






33. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






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






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






39. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






41. A fixed position within source code: _________






42. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






43. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






45. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






46. A reserved word for variable.






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






48. ____________ 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).






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






50. The remainder in a division.






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