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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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1. In Linear Programming ____________ variables are used to convert inequalities to equalities






2. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






4. The remainder in a division.






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






6. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






7. Statistical middle






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






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






10. :=? 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.






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






12. dividend / divisor = _______________






13. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






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. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






18. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






20. A fixed position within source code: _________






21. 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






22. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






24. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






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






29. Integer division is denoted by _____






30. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






32. It controls the operation of the entire system and performs the arithmetic and logic operations and and stores and retrieves instructions and data.






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






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






35. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






37. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. The address of a memory location






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






47. Statistics: square root of variance






48. 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.






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






50. base value of a binary number system?