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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






2. :=? 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.






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






11. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






13. Statistical average






14. Part of the program that may be repeated






15. Outout and Input are _____






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






17. ____________ 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).






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






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






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






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






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






23. The remainder in a division.






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






25. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






27. A reserved word for variable.






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






29. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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






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






33. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






36. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






39. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






41. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






42. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






44. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






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






48. Type of control structure: CASE






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






50. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO