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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






18. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






21. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






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






25. :=? 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.






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






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






28. The remainder in a division.






29. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






34. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






37. A reserved word for variable.






38. ____________ / divisor = quotient






39. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






41. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






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






45. ____________ 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).






46. Statistics: square root of variance






47. Part of the program that may be repeated






48. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






50. Outout and Input are _____